Recording Schedule Quotes

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.

I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

I record a podcast, 'Shondaland Revealed,' every week while we are shooting.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

There's no grace period between album one and album two.

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I still find time to record during the season. Offseason, I record every day until 7 A.M. - all night.

I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Usually for cartoons, I record them in the mornings from 9 A.M. to noon, then I have the rest of the day to do on camera. It actually gives me time to work on my own projects.

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.

My life used to be record, tour, record, tour. You can never say no as a freelance musician. I was on the road 200 days a year.

Voice work is usually not that big of a time commitment. You can go in for a couple of days or a couple of months, here and there, and just go in and play. I like being able to do that. You don't have that luxury on film sets or television sets.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.