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.
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the stud...
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What does it mean to call for a “democratic” solution if you don’t have a conflict-resolution mechanism in mind? I think it means that you have said the word “democracy,” so the audience is supposed to cheer. It’s not so much a propositio...
I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm alway...
I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea d...
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't...
I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'...
I originally had opened the studio in New York to combine my two loves, music and design. And we created videos and packaging for many musicians that you know, and for even more that you've never heard of. As I realized, just like with many, many thi...
