I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.
Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.
If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.
Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.
In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.
