'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.
I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.
My album will manifest many things I saw,did or heard about; I talk first hand never word of mouth.
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular.
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones. 'Trane took me aside, and, of course, we did Blue Trane, which was my first album-and that started everything. He had confidence that I didn't have; he saw something that I didn't see.
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.
I started in a band called Timbiriche, we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.
I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots
When I was a kid, I would go to the record store, where there was a bin of things they didn't know quite how to classify. Those were my choices. That's where you would find Captain Beefheart or an early electronic album.
I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.
I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.
It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.