I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it. Writing as I would define it serves to re...
...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up...
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
I want to have a record of your nudity in one of my works of art." ~Larsson TIGER
The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those.
