It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I'll continue on after that tour.
Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.
Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Let's be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.
Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
We all know the record biz don't pay. All musicians have day jobs - no matter how big they are.
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
