At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right. "
I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.
When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.
I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.
I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.
I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.
I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
I had a little indie label called No Core and Dave Grohl's first band was called, Dain Bramage so I out an album for them and for whatever reason, he's never forgot it and has always been super nice to me since.
Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
Anytime you have a fellow artist say, 'Loving the new Luke Bryan album,' that's awesome.
It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.
Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R. E. M. ] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid. ' I'll never forget that.
I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L. A. with a movie script in his drawer.
England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it gives me the freedom to speak about something else that's going on in my life, so the Born Sinner thing is not about church, it's not even about religion. It's using that as canvas to get other messages across and that's what the album will be.
For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.