Jimmy Page Quotes

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

Usually, I really only look at any one particular album at a time when I'm making it. I've never really sat and looked at the journey through all of my albums to see if I could find a thread through them.

You have to grow with the music.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible subsided, and I started getting good.

Everything really came together on '1992.' That isn't to dismiss my earlier works - they were great - but when I focused myself on hip-hop everything just clicked.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.