Michael Lindsay-Hogg Quotes

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort of like having a lot of footage and then editing it into something that will make sense to a viewer, you know. Sometimes it might involve even working on an older song that might complete that picture.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

A lot of people don't know that before the artist, I wanted to be a writer and producer. That's always been a love of mine. Its easy for me to do it on myself, but it's fun to create for someone else.

In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

After struggling for so long in the industry and writing so many failed songs and hearing 'no' for so long - I'm so grateful every time I hear a song that I was a part of on the radio.

I write chronologically in my life, so whatever's going on, I write about it. Usually, that's when I feel the most cohesive body of work is formed. I got to live this crazy life, I got to write about it, and now I've got this record that I'm really proud of, too. It's not done, but when I put it out, it's gonna be good.

When I work with Future, it's almost like a work of art.

I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

I don't listen to my music if I'm not making it.

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

I'd been working on new Slipknot material since the end of the 'All Hope Is Gone' tour cycle, but I ended up with so much stuff, I had to take a step back and stop working on it.

In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.

My fondest memories are of being hidden away in Scotland or Spain writing and working on songs for Wings.

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

What happens with writing a song and demoing it, for me the demo always becomes the master.

There's a joy I get from collaborating with other artists, and there's a joy I get from making songs on my own.

You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.