Direction Quote by Jens Lekman

When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through…

— BJ the Chicago Kid

I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because you are…

— Trentemøller

Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.

— Gza

Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating…

— G-Eazy

It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for…

— Nicola Roberts

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

It's weird for me talking about my own song that I wrote from my past experience in a way that sounds like it's not…

— Lola Young

This album is my life, and my life's really not that interesting. It's not "not interesting," but I'm just some dude just like everyone…

— Nick Murphy

I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to…

— Raphael Saadiq

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain…

— John Rzeznik

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote…

— Aimee Mann

I think an album is all about the songs you've worked on and the journey it's taken to get there.

— Bishop Briggs