Chorus Quote by Craig Finn

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years…

— Elvis Costello

I always feel like the past informs my present musically.

— Flying Lotus

You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then they change…

— Passenger

We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.

— Johnny Christ

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the…

— Bent Saether

We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do…

— Tyler Joseph

A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus…

— M. Shadows

I believe a band has to evolve rather than making the same album over and over again, because if you do, sooner or later…

— Shavo Odadjian

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from…

— Matt Cameron

I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from…

— Tom Waits

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Every album has a thing where it's like, "How are we going to marry our four ideas and personalities?" The older we get, the…

— Ed Droste