With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.
Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.
I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.
I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
That's almost the best part, making the record cover.
I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.
I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow. . . there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better. . . but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.
If there were Satan, I would gladly sell my soul to him to prevent Sting from making another record.
I don't have the best dating track record.
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush
I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2. 0.
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.
When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk. '