When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records...
My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock sectio...
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 thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.
I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what I mean?
A vocal producer is very important, and it's a very important component of an overall successful and good-sounding record.
I made this record without a record label.
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
