I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.
My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon. com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.
I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.
A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.
I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.
As for my memory, I have a particularly good one. I never keep any record of my investigations or experiments. My memory files all these things away conveniently and reliably. I should say, though, that I didn’t cumber it up with a lot of useless matter.
I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.
Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.
People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.
Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.
I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records.
to balance my own checkbook each month, I simply record whatever is necessary in the following manner: '37 cents to cover embezzlement by somebody at the bank.