Album Quotes

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.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

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.

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

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.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.

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.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.

I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.