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The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!
Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.
There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.
One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.
Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.
You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'
I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved.
I'm gon' drip forever, but I'm not going to just focus on that. That's not going to be the title of all my albums.
Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.
This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.
'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.
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.
If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.
If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.
My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.
There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.
We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.
It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.
At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.
Even though it felt completely natural - strangely enough - recording an album, I was very shy about making it public.
I would definitely want a hit record, but I still want the success to be around the album. Only the music can help me.
Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.
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.
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in
Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.
It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.
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.
I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams . . . It was like the revelations of John the Baptist or something.
I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.