Adam Schlesinger Quotes

Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.

Adam Schlesinger

• Different
• Business
• Band

I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.

Adam Schlesinger

• Time
• Work
• Stop

With Fountains Of Wayne, I almost always start with lyrics - maybe not the entire lyric, but I almost always need a couplet or something, and then I work from there. With Ivy, it's much more about the atmosphere and the vibe.

Adam Schlesinger

• Work
• Lyrics
• Lyric

Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.

Adam Schlesinger

• Music
• Paris

I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'

Adam Schlesinger

• Work
• Movie

A band can define their own success.

Adam Schlesinger

• Success
• Band

The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.

Adam Schlesinger

• America

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

Adam Schlesinger

• Writing

I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.

Adam Schlesinger