I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.
Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.
I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.
Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
