Album Quotes

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.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.