Album Quotes

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?

It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.