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By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.
I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'
I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
If I can, I will make an album each year, but time shall tell if this works out. I have other things to do in my life as well.
When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.
For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'
It would be wicked to do a mad '90s tune and make it a duet with Rihanna. I love her new album 'Anti.' I'm into quite dark R&B.
The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.
I'm experimenting. That was part of the reason why I named the album 'Stay Dangerous.' It was about being proactive, not reactive.
When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.
When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.
There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
I am grateful to fans' warm support for my acting, but I thought it might be better if I sing again to meet their wishes for my album.
Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.
Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.
My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?'
The album 'Hoodie SZN' is about the result of where I come from: it gave me this black heart. And the black heart represents depression.
I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
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.
My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
For us, an album is the highest art form - an album or a really incredible film. We're musicians, not filmmakers, so this is what we can do.
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album.
Some of the music I made for 'Fantastic Damage' I thought I was making for the Company Flow album, but the majority of it was post-Company Flow.
I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.
When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.
I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
We treat each album as our traces and our legacy.
The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!