I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was ...
I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.
Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
Nothing is more frustrating to me than putting a song on an album and regret putting it on there. I'm excited that there are no songs on 'Tailgates & Tanlines' that I'm iffy about.
What I don't do is try to like become whoever I'm rapping with. The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL.
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
