Quotes About Commitment

I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.

When we're recording, I always dress up.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.

I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.

I may be on set acting, I may be in the studio recording, I might be teaching dance class all in the same day - so how can I manage all of those needs, prepare for all of those things, and still grow and train in all of them? The best you can do is, when you're focusing on one, be there and be present.

I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

We're a band that keeps writing and recording - we don't know when it's over.

I never thought I'd be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

Some people take off recording cycles, but I record year round.

I never really work on just one CD - I'm recording, recording.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

I would practice while listening to records or learn from musicians who were better than I was.

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