Kate Smith Quotes

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

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

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

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I want to put out as many albums as I can before I die.

All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.

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.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs with titles like 'Unify' and 'You're Special.' And there's this song that reminds me of Meghan Trainor that I wrote, about a woman's body and not conforming, when I first started in music.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

I never really made a full album in Los Angeles before.

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 would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

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.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.