When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.
When I was making a shift... from one thing to another I didn't want to be answering questions: 'How come you're doing this?' 'How come you're doing that?' so I didn't allow anyone in my studio and I just worked away in there.
I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.
With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.
I can never remember what I do even in the studio.
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.
The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.
I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
Just going through a lot in my life, becoming more confident in myself, writing my own music and just really getting in the studio and just doing it.
Some people are denizens of the studio. I'm more of a denizen of the live appearance. I love the live thing.
I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
I like to explore a lot of textural, arrangement aspects in the studio.
Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.
