The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.
We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.
I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.
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.
The focus is on melody: If you get it right, and it connects to the mass audience, it doesn't matter if it's a studio album or played on the dance floor.
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
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.
It's inevitable that if you write an album or a song, obviously it's going to come from how you feel. You're writing it for yourself, it's just the way it is.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'
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.
I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983.
In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.
I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
The bottom line is what we record is what we use. Once we feel we've got a good album, we stop at that. That's usually around 12 tracks.
I have a Gibson Thinline that I designed the body shape of, which I used a lot on the 'Fanatic' album that I'm going to shake out.
When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.
I'm always excited to make the next album because I definitely get sick of my work the second it gets out there.
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!
I have to say, I'm sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don't really have an album - I have a playlist.
My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.
I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.
A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.
I wanted to make music for my people that I grew up with in my neighborhood. That's kind of the long and the short of that whole 'Diary' album.
Producing a dark Christmas album in the middle of the summer is a very interesting process, especially if you are doing it by the turquoise Caribbean Sea.
I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
My private joke about 'Luke Cage' is that it's a bulletproof version of 'Lemonade,' and that, essentially, it's a concept album that has a video component.
The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.
I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
I have like a whole album of screenshots of my sister's face, and it's hilarious. One look at that and it'll put you in a good mood for the rest of the day.
Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard
I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.
When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.
The first album, I'd had some input, but I was 14 years old then, and I really didn't know what I was talking about.
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
I'm there from conception to delivery of an album because I don't want anybody getting in the middle of my music and meddling with my work while I'm on the road.
The holiday time is where people slow down a little bit more. You get a chance to really take in an album.
In 2010 I came out with my own album, I was 10 years younger, going through breakups, so it was still raw.
To record an album is cathartic, or at least it was with 'Belus,' but to make music is more fulfilling than anything else, I think.
I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.
I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.
The main thing with my shows is that I'm professional but not highly polished. I don't like people to think they're just seeing an album in person.
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.
Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.
I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
Def Jam was always trying to get me to put out an album because I had 'Toot It and Boot It.'
If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.
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