I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.
I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.
I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.
Most of my records are never going to be commercial successes, and I don't expect that. It's just all a learning process to me. If something appears as a failure, fine. If there's success, fine. I like the record, and my friends like the record, and that's kind of all I can really care about.
I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it.
I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.
All records are not made to be broken.
I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.
For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.
I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.
There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.
I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves.
I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.
But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.
The Emmys are honestly very unpredictable. I mean, have you looked at my Emmy record? I was nominated 6 times for ER and won once.
I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
I can really only can record at home.
God isn't keeping a record of each time we fall, but He is excited about our progress, and we should be excited, too!
I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.
When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.
Records don't have to be perfect.
