I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That function comes in handy later, but if you let it in too early, you can trip yourself up.

Nick Valensi

Categorized in : Thinking Song Writing

I abhor television. Notice how i said ‘television’ and not ‘TV’ because TV is a nickname and nicknames are for friends and television is no friend of mine.

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The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much, and she said: ‘Julian! Because he’s the singer

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I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

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Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.

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I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

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Sometimes I feel like when you're in the dressing room, and you're on stage in 10 minutes, you feel like your stomach is going to explode.

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