Kimbra Quotes

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I don't think I wrote my first song until I was 25. And then everything I wrote ended up becoming my first album. I put my music online, and from that, things just happened.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.