"I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do."
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"Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could."
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"What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous."
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"I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers."
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"You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years."
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"I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it."
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"By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album."
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"I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much."
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"It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it."
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"If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record."
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"For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else."
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"I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'"
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"If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs."
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"I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono."
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"The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest."
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"I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over."
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"If you want the old me, go buy my old albums."
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"For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music."
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"It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance."
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"I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead."
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