In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
I didn't want to do a double album. I just felt like the last two records I made were like that, and a lot of records I was buying were like that, and it started to feel like it was too much music to digest at once.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time
Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me.
It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.
If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.
When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.
The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.
There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.
With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.
