First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out.
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
