I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.
If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.
I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
I love Rihanna's new album, Skrillex, and Norah Jones. They're are all very different, but I love any rock, pop, and jazz.
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.
And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.
I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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.
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.
The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.
Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.
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I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'
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