Katie Melua Quotes

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

I've got a studio at home, and I'm always recording.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.'

I've been making demos at home for many albums now. So over those years, I've learned how to record music, and I love being at home. I excel when I can make things at home.

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in school while I was in class, and then, in a 10-minute break, I recorded the song 'Hurt' in one go at the school studio.

I work out of my home studio that I built in this warehouse in Philadelphia. I've kind of curated it for my needs and my sound.

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 view making records as a journey.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.

I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

I make make music in my own time, messing around with beats and riffs I write. Always practicing performing in my room most times I probably look like an idiot dancing around haha.