The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.
I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.
About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.
DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.
There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.
I make records with an open mind, I always have.
When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.
I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.
I'm just saying love has a lot to do with the power of forgiveness.
I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.
It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.
