Album Content Quotes

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

We had always put ballads on all of our albums.

I probably could have gone in depth about a lot of things, but then the album would've been longer. You can't have a short album when you're talking about suicide and cocaine. That's not going to be a short album.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

I want to have a huge album that's, like, 18 or 19 tracks. I hate those albums where there's only, like, ten tracks, and you're left thinking, 'Is this it?'

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Normally the amount of music we have is what you hear on the album and that's it.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.

As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

I've written about one song on several different albums.

I've done gospel songs on every album.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

I can't bring myself to release an instrumental album because I feel like I want some meat on the bone. Something to chew on, lyrically and content-wise.

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.