My best friend from college engineered my record. He and I keep in touch on just a purely one-music-fan-to-another basis.
I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.
Not everybody is gonna like every track on my record ever!
I'm really just tryna bring it home for my city, I'm trying so hard to be the best I can be on every record I do, every feature I do and every different city I go to.
I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.
If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce. She's like number 1 right now because I love everything about her. Her fashion, her style, her attitude when it comes to singing. She's perfect.
It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.
Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.
When I'm doing a drawing, I get lots of ideas I use them in my songs, even. I do a lot of drawings because that's where I get most of my spending cash and I just always have to have new records, to get something to satisfy my listening pleasure.
I didn't really feel any pressure when I've made records, I haven't as yet anyway. I feel when I'm making a record that I'm so excited about making new songs that when I'm doing demos of new songs, as soon as I make one that's really different I get really excited about the record, I don't care about the last record anymore.
I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.
Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.
I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.
I think people get mad because I make more direct records.
I write the most sexiest records out.
The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.
Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.
My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
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