Quotes About Creativity

I like to make great albums.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

Over the years, Yes actually made 20 albums of original studio material.

No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.

I write about things and put things into my albums that I don't talk to people about. I don't hold back or sugarcoat anything.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that.

I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

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

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

I ask myself when I see a new album: 'Is this an album that they needed to make, or do they need to just keep making albums?'

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

I don't sing songs on albums that I don't like.

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

Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don't think albums are the way to go.

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.