Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.
I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.
'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.
The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.
There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.
I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'
I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
