Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'...
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
Karen Richards: This beats all records for running, standing or jumping gall.
The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.
I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I'm going to learn from those mistakes.
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
