If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act is now. You don’t know how much time you’ve got left. Ricky Reed Read Quote
My music has evolved to reflect that multigendered, multiracial, multigenre music. Whether I realized it before or not, I’m most influenced by that rock and soul hybrid. Ricky Reed Read Quote
Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you’re going into the studio five days a week? Ricky Reed Read Quote
Don’t do anyone else’s version of a hit song – it’s gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11. Ricky Reed Read Quote
A lot of what we do in the studio on a day-to-day basis is you try to cast a line as far out as you can out into unknown waters and reel it back in, cut out stuff that isn’t working, cut out stuff that isn’t connecting to people. Ricky Reed Read Quote
What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, ‘Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.’ Ricky Reed Read Quote
When I started trying to produce records for other people, one of the first tracks I wrote and produced was sort of a ‘Kelly Clarkson circa 2008,’ kind of big-brassy, guitar-pop, rock song. I was like, ‘I can do this. I can make pop songs.’ It was bad. Ricky Reed Read Quote
This might sound strange, but I’ve never really been a person who has goals of any sort. I tend to just work in the moment, day-to-day, try to make things and make decisions that feel good, and it tends to guide me where I want to go in the long-term. Ricky Reed Read Quote
