When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.
If nobody wants to buy your album, who's going to buy your clothes?
I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.
I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.
My first album was completed in three months.
Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.
Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, "Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?"
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to. . . well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
That's usually what happens with ACDC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.
For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album?. . . The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.
When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
Every project is different. When I'm working on my albums, I've worked with different producers and they've all had different personalities. The recording studio sets the vibe, and that changes as well.
Now everything is available at the push of a button, and that thrill of the search is gone. With vinyl albums and special edition releases, I feel like that's coming back.