Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock !!!
When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.
Beyoncé can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.
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."
One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.
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.
Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now.
I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life.
There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.
I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.
I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.
As I've gotten older, now I've really got to back that up with record sales. Anytime showed me that I could still have some of those elements I wanted, but you still have to come with hit after hit after hit.
For me able to do the records I want to do and not have to worry about this producer or that producer or that trend, I'm not really interested in that.
I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.
I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.
It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
