To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if that means that you have to help write a bridg…

- John Congleton

Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want m…

- John Congleton

I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out of everything. It just makes work a lot more fun…

- John Congleton

I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing songs and playing, but there was some…

- John Congleton

Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.

- John Congleton

I feel just as creative focusing on just the sounds and getting the photographic representation of where the sounds should be. But it's all the same …

- John Congleton

I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I…

- John Congleton

Roger Waters isn't a "great" singer but he's always able to communicate this intense desperation. At times he's not even singing, but shouting. There…

- John Congleton

The only thing I say I consciously do is I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, o…

- John Congleton