I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.
I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
