Quotes About Album

The album is a thing that you can hang out with between shows. I think that it's really nice to give people something they can enjoy in a private situation or walking around, just as the soundtrack of their lives.

There was just a moment when I fell in love with singing, probably when I started listening to Ben Howard and his album 'I Forget Where We Were.' I fell in love with that album, and that album really made me fall in love with singing.

I didn't want to end up in Hollywood having facelifts and my hair dyed blond so I could appear on my own album cover.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album.

The bloody nose was the album cover for my first album, but it's since become my logo.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

Brazilian music has been a part of almost every record I've done, and I'd eventually like to record an entire album of Brazilian music.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year.

Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

My engineer on the 'Life is Too $hort' album was Al Eaton. Al Eaton had a studio called One Little Indian Studios, and he was a pretty good guitar player. He would suggest certain songs. Al was the force behind 'Life is Too $hort' and definitely the force behind songs like 'The Ghetto.'

In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn't expected that at all.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

Quando vado in giro per Belleville, a qualunque ora della giornata, ho sempre la sensazione di essermi perso in uno degli album di Clara

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.