Patti Smith Quotes

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 first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

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.

I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration.

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

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.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Albums take a lot out of you.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

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

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

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 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.

Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.

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