"When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations."
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"I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song."
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"The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album."
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"Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album."
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"I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever."
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"The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover."
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"Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time."
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"Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours."
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"I personally really like getting a proper album with artwork and everything."
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"On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes."
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"I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine."
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"If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant."
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"At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it."
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"Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album."
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"It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?"
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"We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."
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"All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums."
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"I gave the album [You're Under Arrest] to Quincy Jones and he loved "D Train". We couldn't call it "D Train"; it's called "MDI/Something's On Your Mind/MD2". That's on the album."
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"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
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"I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make an album then take three or four years off to recharge their batteries. Comedians tend to work straight through and they get stale because of that. Even when I didn't have a lot of money I never ever did it unless I had something new to say."
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