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I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.
The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.
I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
Some people say we have thirteen albums that all sound the same. That isn't true. We have fourteen albums that all sound the same.
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.
The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.
Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.
I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.
Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.
Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
When the 'greats of all-time' put out their first albums, it wasn't a thousand features on it. And I'm one of the greats in my eyes.
Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.
I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.
I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.
I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point.
I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn't good music - mums would buy the albums for their kids - it was all about the gimmicks.
It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.
I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.
I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.
Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.