I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings. And this, of course, is why evolution remains controversial.
When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.
A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.
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.
