Ginuwine Quotes

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

I had something to prove and went in the studio and started writing. I got into fitness and style and learned the whole craft. That was when I wrote everything on the album. I put out 'Don't Ya,' and it took off.

I never stopped recording, but I went through a period where... The one thing that a lot of people don't know is that for as long as I've been as artist, I've been a writer and a producer.

Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.

It doesn't matter how many records you've made; there's always a new experience you can get with a new producer.

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that's why the records came out so good.

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

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

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

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!

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.

You can never really know what a record's going to be.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.