Wale Quotes

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

'Pump' was my first song.

We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

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

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

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

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

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I like to make great albums.

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.