Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.
I always consider every album to be a snapshot.
I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.
You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.
Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.
James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.
I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!
[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look.
I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.
[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.
I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.
Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles
In a way, as much as we love to be a big, loud rock band, the acoustic album was a lot easier to make than the rock records. I think because it was brand new territory for the band.
The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.
And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.
One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is a great loss to the music world. There will never be another one like him.
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
