Todd Barry Quotes

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

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

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'

Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

I love doing third albums. A group makes its first album, and then the record company rushes them into the studio to make their second album. After that, they go, 'Whoa, wait a second.' They get a little more confident. They step back and say, 'Okay, now we're gonna do it.'

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

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

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and some of the firstborns appreciated it. I was being influenced by them brothers there. That's where I got my start and my first listen.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'

When you're recording a ninth studio album, you can't fail. You don't really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don't, they have eight other ones to listen to.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

To me, Def Jam put my career on hold. I was used to making 13-14 songs a year, and they trickled that down to nothing.

We don't ever spread ourselves too thin. And sometimes it's a little bit to the chagrin of our fans; they don't get albums... I mean, The Beatles were doing two albums a year at one point.

I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

Butch Vig was a true friend and really guided us, and it was such a fulfilling relationship with a person to make records with.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.