The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!
Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.
Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.
Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.
I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.
I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.
I just made my album. I did my best, and I uploaded the video just at YouTube. That was all.
The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.
I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.
I only put an album out every two or three years.
My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
But for the most part, for the majority of a stand-up audience, you better have new stuff they've not heard. And if you put an album out, just consider that material gone. At least that's how I see it.
When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.
