Album Quotes

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.

I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

I'm not in this for the money because if I was, I would have jumped out after our first album.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good.

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.