Bootsy Collins Quotes

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

Before, I used to just make songs all day and now, with so much business and other things that I have in my personal life, I don't have time to sit around and make songs like I used to. I wish I did. I wish I could practice on my craft all day and just be in the studio like I feel Lil Wayne does.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

I'd like to live in a house in Miami and make music, or Brooklyn.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.

When you make records, you gotta think about what's going to be happening at the concert.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

There's no grace period between album one and album two.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.