Shane MacGowan Quotes

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

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

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

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

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

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

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.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

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.

I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.

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.

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.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.