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"When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days."
"I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums."
"I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship."
"I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album."
"A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one."
"I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life."
"A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it."
"I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write."
"I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it."
"Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day."
"The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it."
"All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album."
"In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album."
"A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play."
"[David] Bowie had a genius for continual change himself, reinventing his sound and his image throughout the decades. Each album seemed to find Bowie in a different persona, with a new sound to match his new look."
"I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements."
"[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet."
"You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with."
"I'm very proud of all the bluegrass-oriented albums. It just reminded me and my fans that I should always record acoustic music and country records, along with anything else that I might want to do."
"I would just think that I would remember modeling for the cover of an album with Tom Waits, who I've always loved."
