Music Process Quotes

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

I think after a long tour and after an album, your brain feels like it wants to relax, but at the same time, making music for me is something that comes kind of naturally. Just like a brain process.

My music-making process is pretty fun and easy.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don't come until later.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

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

It's a really interesting situation, because when you make music at home all the energy goes into the process, and touring's all about the energy going outward. I had to learn how to do that transition, but once I figured that out it's so much fun.

Cause I love STP so much and it meant so much to me as a musician throughout my process - along with other bands too - but they were definitely one of those bands that influenced me and that I looked up to a lot, I just wanted to continue their journey - for them.

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the loop with the music team till the song is ready.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.