Glenn Danzig Quotes

We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.

I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've ever had has been about 50-50 songs I've written or co-written and other people's songs.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

I block out a good amount of time - could be 6 or 8 months - and I just write. I do a lot of traveling, and I do a lot of co-writing with different writers just to start getting ideas out and kind of get a little bit of direction as far as where I'm going to go with the album.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

It was a pleasure to work with Destiny's Child in the beginning of their career. Working in the studio with Beyonce was a lot of fun. She's an extremely hard worker, perfectionist, and a talented writer.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, and I never wanted to be in the music business if I was just going to be a puppet in it.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.