Jeff Lynne Quotes

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.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

My first album came out in 1979.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

People say, 'When are you making this comeback?' I say, 'It's not a comeback, it's a record.' They say, 'Where have you been all these years?' I say, 'I've been making records.'

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

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.

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

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'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

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

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

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.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.