Coming together Quote by Matt Costa

I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own.…

— Jazmine Sullivan

The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something memorable and…

— Derek E. Miller

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new…

— Paul Gilbert

When recording, whatever you first think about, you come out with something totally different at the end of it. Whatever plans you have you…

— Paul Weller

I started out with original songs.

— Tanishk Bagchi

Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take…

— Frank Iero

I gave myself a year to write as many songs as I could, and then I made a shortlist of about 10, and on…

— G Flip

I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players…

— Steve Martin

When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it from the…

— Steven Adler

I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on every album,…

— St. Lucia

With my first three albums I did everything on my own. It was what I was used to and where I felt comfortable. I…

— Amy Macdonald

When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote about. So…

— Erin McKeown