Album Quotes

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

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.

Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle.

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

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 knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'.

The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

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.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

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.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

My first album came out in 1979.

Who really needs a new album from me?

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

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.