I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.
I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.
With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.
The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.
And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'
When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.
An album takes at least a year or 8 months and I think that's too long for your fans to wait to hear you again.
It's the maddest thing, watching old shows, like getting your family album out and flicking through.
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
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.
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
The whole 'Muddy Waters' title is not about things look or how deep it can get or it can be. It's just the slouchiness of the album.
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.
PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.
We had sold a lot of copies of the 'Miami' album without being racked by some of the big distributors.
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.
Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.
There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.
'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.
To be able to create an album where you are in complete control of your own work is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for an artist.
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?
I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all. It kind of gets lost sometimes.
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
Success happened real quick, so I was just all over the place and damn near lost my mind on the second album.
After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.
There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'
Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.
I have recorded with a 60-piece orchestra, and it gives me satisfaction to have done an album entirely with acoustic instruments.
The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.
I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.
I put three productions of my youngest brother Jason on my album, on 'Konnichiwa,' and that made me happy, to be able to do that for him.
With the Echoes tour there was quite a lot of people who came to the shows that were attracted by the music and the sentiment on the album.
I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!
Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.
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.
My fans have supported me in concerts around the world regardless of how well my current album was selling.
I got signed to RCA when I was so young and made seven albums with them, plus a greatest hits album.
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.
I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.
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