It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.
It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.
I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.
Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.
KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.
I've appeared on some other people's albums.
Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.
Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.
I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?
We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
