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"The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough."
"Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul."
"It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record."
"My next baby will be my new record."
"I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results."
"I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best."
"The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever."
"I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist."
"I feel like every great record is like a world in itself."
"Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself."
"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."
"[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record."
"It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves."
"Making records is not how it used to be! #stillwerking"
"History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history."
"I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record."
"When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy."
"If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records."
"When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands."
"I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it."
