Recording Process Quotes

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.

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

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.

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there, chosen for me to see if I liked them. I wasn't encouraged to write.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero of the Day,' I know I used a 1958 Les Paul Standard with a Matchless Chieftain, some Boogie amps and a Vox amp - again, they're all blended.

My first album was completed in three months.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

With me, I record so much that I just get in the zone.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

After dubbing my lines for the first time, I'd say it's more difficult than performing in front of the camera.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

There's not like a science to it, necessarily, but I'm also the kind of person who spends a long time in the studio. I will spend my entire advance just getting it done, which is probably stupid, but I don't have extravagant taste. I mean, I paid for it, so there you go. Why not? The recording process is also very fun.