Alex Kapranos Quotes

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

It's a really hard decision, picking my second single.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

I enjoy putting out singles.

Every time I do a dance track it's like I'll get a heart attack, because it depends heavily on the video, the hook line, the stars and the promotion. Any of these factors fail, the song fails.

'Let There Be Love' is going to be my very first international single release after going independent and I'm beyond excited.

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.