Grace Chatto Quotes

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 have been recording for five decades now.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

When I record an album I'm trying to get as close as possible to that perfect moment.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

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.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I'm not one of those kind of people that likes to beat up the past to validate the present. Certain people think that it's cool to make fun of MC Hammer. I'm like, 'Yeah, but you owned all of his records.'

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

I would love to do an album of standards!