Goals Quote by Eric Bachmann

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy…

— Mark Hoppus

If you produce yourself and you're working in a band, there's certain compromises everyone has to make, because it's a democracy and you have…

— Luke Temple

It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good…

— Dan Bejar

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during…

— Tom Waits

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

— Elvis Costello

The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write…

— Dennis DeYoung

“On a bad day, he could only remember Justin Bieber songs, which didn't do anything except give me a headache.”

— Rick Riordan

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you…

— Rick James

I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on…

— Olly Murs

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

— Dick Dale

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs,…

— Kenny Chesney

I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing…

— Clay Aiken