Record Creation Quotes

Creating a record on my own and deciding who plays and how the songs were structured, it was fun to do.

I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.

I think the third record is the hardest one.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

I love running away for a few months and creating a record.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really like 'em.

I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into.

You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.