Quotes About Album

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I think the fact is that World Coming Down was just a really hard album for people to deal with.

It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.

I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.

I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

To me, one of the greatest albums I ever put out was the album I did with Statik Selektah.

I would say my favorite is probably the 'Colder' video. Just because that sort of brings the album artwork to life. It's not my favorite song on the album, but visually, I think it just came out exactly how I had it in my head.

and there's even a heavy metal album called The Anthropocene Extinction.

into the life of crime and made it real to me. I went everywhere with his books, idolizing him. A lot of people don't know this, but in 1976 Iceberg recorded an album called Reflections, which had a lot of slick rhyming. I used to spit his words back verbatim. The gangbangers used to constantly say, "Yo, kick

A Hard Day's Night' is the most perfect pop album you'll ever get to hear in your life; it's filled with definitive versions of the two-minute pop song.

Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.

I like 'Confide' a lot. It was just like a great vibe for me. I was in the studio in Atlanta, and I recorded it and thought, 'This is definitely going on my album.'

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I think it's something that I've always loved and always loved to perform. So that's the kind of album that I'd like to put out.

I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there.

I've never got the vibe that they would do a gospel song. 'Cause when they talking about doing another Geto Boys album I said I would do it if I could rap like I'm rapping on my gospel album, I didn't get a whole lot of cosigning on that from all the political parties concerned.

I think that I always title the album towards the closing of the album. I don't know why I do that. I think it's just the vibe. As I go on, my emotions change... right before it's over I'll say, 'This is what I'm gonna call it,' and that's kinda how it happens.

Well, 'Crunk Rock' doesn't mean rock. Initially when I started the album, I did collaborate with a bunch of rock musicians and producers. But as I started to have time to free my mind and catch different vibes, it started to mean something different.

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.