Quotes About Music

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

I was in the band for the first six albums.

There was a time when using TV to sell albums was frowned upon.

You can't make somebody buy an album. I buy people's albums though.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

It's not that I don't have talent. I've had four gold albums in Scandinavia and they never heard of me as anything but a singer.

From when I was 18 I had an eight-album plan and I think I would love to make eight albums.

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

I listen to classic albums that I ain't gotta fast forward. If I gotta fast forward it three times, I don't like your music. Well, not your music, not your album. Yeah, I don't like your album.

I've been into Yellowcard for a while. They've put out a lot of great albums.

Any time I approach a scene, it's not just what's on the page - it's how the camera's going to show or not show what's on the page. It's which character are we going to align with and what music is going to be playing.

Prince and I happen to think alike.

I hear stuff in my head all day.

I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds real similar to me because I work on that kind of music all day. I end up listening to more jazz, stuff that I can't really play.

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

I've wanted to play Lollapalooza all my life.

I've loved music all my life.

I wish I could say I've been following Youssou N'Dour all my life. I haven't.

I've been in music all my life.

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

I've been going to Ibiza all my life really, since I was a kid.

I still find time to record during the season. Offseason, I record every day until 7 A.M. - all night.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.