If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.
My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying,. . . I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.
I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.
One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.
Whitney Houston was a laser beam. . . She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio
I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
I feel most real to myself in the studio.
Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.
Brian Eno taught us how to use the Recording Studio as an instrument.
In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.
I love the magic of the studio.
I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?
I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.
People always think that when they grew up it was better. The people who went to Studio 54 say, "Oh, this is nothing!" or "The Limelight is nothing. In our day it was much better. " But I mean, it's always great. It's always fresh to the kids. And to me, you've just got to make it happen. You can't be a downer and say, "This is nothing like the roaring 20s. "
It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.