Quotes About Artistry

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I don't like listening to records a lot after they're done. There's just no real nourishment there for me.

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

There are so many great records that when you grow older, you're like, 'Oh man, this is the best record ever made.' And you're like, 'Oh it didn't get nominated or win a Grammy.' It's countless, how many amazing, classic American records haven't been knighted or whatever.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

I like bands that don't necessarily sell the most records.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

When I buy lots of records, I stop making music - it's detrimental to the creative side. When I'm DJing a lot, it's just basically partying every day.

Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

All of my style came from listening to records.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.