Adrian Belew Quotes

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

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.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

I started young. My first record came out when I was - what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

My first album didn't come out until I was 26.

I love working with my band-mates in Alkaline Trio, but to make a rock record that was just mine was something that I wanted to do.

I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm really glad I didn't.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel a part of anything in any music business.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.