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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.
A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.
Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.
I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
When I wrote my debut album I was around 17, I didn't really know what my sound was or who I was and what I wanted.
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.
I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.
I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
I'm literally obsessed with Christmas, and it's been my dream ever since I was a little girl to make a Christmas album.
Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.
I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.
'Apricot Princess' is like an inside album. You can listen to the album and feel all of those emotions within one night.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
The prime minister in Belgium gave our album to Barack Obama. I was really surprised that he decided to give a CD of us.
There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.
James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.
With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.
I always come back to the gentler stuff like Simon & Garfunkel and the Fleet Foxes' first album - that's quite an odd one.
I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything - why can't I?
I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'
It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
I had success as a drummer and was doing very well - I could send my mom to Best Buy and she could go buy my album, you know?
I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'
My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
If I can, I will make an album each year, but time shall tell if this works out. I have other things to do in my life as well.
I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'
It would be wicked to do a mad '90s tune and make it a duet with Rihanna. I love her new album 'Anti.' I'm into quite dark R&B.
When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.