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I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.

I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!

This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas.

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.

I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

Im one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry arent behind us. Theyre actually ahead of us.

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

My next baby will be my new record.

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.

With the first record (2008’s Ladyhawke) I was quite naive, but very excited and happy.

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.

I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.