Imogen Heap Quotes

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.

Albums take a lot out of you.

I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

Making every record is a process full of tough times.

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Back in the day, I used to be in the studio recording 20 hours a day. And that was all of the time. I still record a lot of hours, but I don't go as long as I used to.

When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

I'm a studio rat.

It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

The music I make, it's so hard. I listen to it 100,000 times before it even drops.

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

If I'm not on tour or doing a show, I'm in the studio.

Making records is hard work.

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.

Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.