I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.
My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.
When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.
We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!
I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.
C.W. Moss: I spent a year... I spent *A YEAR* in reformatory! Bonnie Parker: Whooee! A man with a record!
Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.
I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.
