By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
James Morrison just had a new album come out and I think he's incredible. I'd love to work with him, his voice is insane.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.
Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.
I have about 4 albums of Disney songs, but the embarrassing part is that I know each song word for word, and have dances choreographed for most.
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!
'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.
By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
