24 Quotes by Britt Daniel

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

If I write the song, I get to name it.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.