I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.
Music is my time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.
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.
Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.
The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.
I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.
You will in the future hear me on a pop album, but that's just the experimental side of me.
A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.
When you do an album about Africa, you can't be too superficial.
I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.
Ultimately, these fans that we're blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that's the bread and butter. That's the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it's been about.
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.
When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.
