Mickie James Quotes

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

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.

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I don't intend to stop making music.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

I'd rather make music than tour.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

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 worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.

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.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

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.