An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.
We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.
It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me
Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.
There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.
I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.
And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
I like to make great albums.
I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.
You don't make solo albums to have hits.
You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.
Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise them.
This album was designed to touch your soul.
