Rob Halford Quotes

All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

The first record took us, like, a year and a half to make. The second one took 21 days, including weekends.

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

The music comes first. Final lyrics are usually written very close to recording the vocals.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

Making records should be fun.