Albums Quotes - Page 37

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I made the record, and I sent it over to Jay Brown, who was working on Rihanna's album. He was like, "Send me that record for Rihanna."

I'd stopped doing music all of a sudden, and because of Chill and Jay and B, I got half of my album on a solo project. Then I get a call a week later and Jay is like, "Yo, Janet [Jackson] likes one of the records. We'll take five but are you cool with giving Janet one?" I was like, dude, we can do whatever you want to do.

There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.