Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.
Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
You show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place. )
I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.
There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.
I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.
When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.
The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.
I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.
I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams. ' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.
With ACDC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one. ' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.
There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album. " I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.
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.
A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.
I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.
I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.
I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?