What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

The studio is just a labor. Getting on stage is the reward.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

I really just like making music. People call that 'work.' Like, 'Oh, you're going to the studio to work?' No, that's even what I do in my off day. I love recording.

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.

I get so fed up with the making of an album taking over my life - it's all I can think about or talk about. You find yourself in a rut and lacking inspiration and it's hard to get out of that because I'm working alone in the studio.

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

I'm a studio rat.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I used to always be in Atlanta, chilling. I didn't really have as much to do. So I would gamble as a hobby. Now I'd rather go into the studio and try to make me a hit.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.