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The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing…

— Jack Garratt

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some…

— June Carter Cash

After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months…

— Mura Masa

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the…

— Coy Bowles

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

— McCoy Tyner

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

— Ry Cooder

I feel like an EP is for practice and an album is the game.

— Saweetie

It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

— Corbin Bleu

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

— Jules Shear

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to…

— Agnes Obel

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories.…

— Lewis Capaldi

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

— Rakim