Sour Patch, Swedish Fish. I love candy, man. I can't go without candy. And when I'm recording, I always have a TV on with cartoons - on mute, though. When I'm recording, I like to look at the TV now and then and see some crazy, wacky stuff. When you'...
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At tim...
Record making is an extraordinary experience.
I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.
I would love to do a record with Usher.
A record is a message, timeless.
When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking." - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune
When people would ask me what I’m addicted to, I always said ‘music.’ And while they’d laugh it off like it’s a cliché, I’m actually a complete shopaholic when it comes to records. I’d literally buy 10 albums a week for years, so when ...
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, ...
[discussing Tommy Plympton, the Bride's husband-to-be] Bill: And what does he do for a living? The Bride: He owns a record store. Bill: Ah. And what do you plan to do? The Bride: I work in the record store. Bill: Ah. Suddenly, it all seems so clear.
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice...
All records are not made to be broken.
I've never kept a record of anything.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
If I didn't love it, I would not record it.
The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
To me, making records isn't work.
I'm still amazed by the process of recording.
With the press there is no 'off the record.'
If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
