Sheryl Crow Quotes

I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.

If you're 25, I could see how you could be tricked into thinking 'Benji' is my most successful record, but I've been doing this long before online magazines existed.

As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.

I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.

Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.

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

I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.