John Lennon Quotes

I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.

Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

When I create something, it's got to be special, and it can't just be to throw something out there because I feel like I'm Missy.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.

I got songs; I just never release them. I don't know why. A lot of people say I need to put it out. I guess I haven't made it my focus.

I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.