The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.
I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.
One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.
I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.
I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years.
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
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 don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.
I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.
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.
Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.
When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.
I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.