To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that 'This Can't Be Life' Kanye beat.'
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.
Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.
Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.
