Dave Lombardo Quotes

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

I'm never going to stop writing music as Porter Robinson and I see 'Virtual Self' as more of a tangent.

I always said that someday I'm going to sing on a record.

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

I don't think I could make a pop album.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

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.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.