I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented.
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
My son and I run a string company, and he has a studio there, and I go down sometimes and we'll record.
I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
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.
