Mark Kozelek Quotes

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

I'm a beat hoarder. I'll record five songs in a year and I still hoard beats.

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.

My mom eventually told me if I wanted to be in the music industry, I should start writing my own songs. At that time, I was in junior high and had no idea where to start - I was writing joke rap songs with friends. Eventually, I wrote my first song in high school, and my mom took me to go record it with one of her band member friends at his house.

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

In those days I don't' think they were even demos.

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.

I view making records as a journey.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

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

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

The recording process was basically me meeting with different writers, going into their studio, starting a song and just hanging out and chatting and getting to know how they work. Everybody has a different writing process so there was a lot of getting to know people, which can be fun and stressful at the same time.