Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.
I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.
Art comes from life, not from the studio
I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.
What's working for me is like when I go into the studio, I'm trying to get goosebumps.
I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.
Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.
When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was. . . I thought art is art.
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.
The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.
One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.
If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
