Henry Rollins Quotes

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.

The fans are very, very loyal. They're always saying, 'When is the next album?' They know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album.

Don't get me wrong, I love my first two albums a lot.

I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

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 guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

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

A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

When I first got started, I used to say I just want to stay in the studio, I want to make good music, I want to sing my heart out, and I didn't think I'd have people following me to a grocery store or following me home or stuff like that.

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

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

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

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

Making records is hard work.

When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking and presenting myself as an artist that's commercially sellable led to me meeting the right people, which in turn led to them givin' me positive referrals to other people, which in turn led to me signin' a deal.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

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.

I have never had a problem letting a record go.Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them Honestly when I'm making them, mixing them.