Album Title Quotes

There's a couple of fills on the 'Head Job' album. The title track sounds huge, I love it, and there's a few fills in there.

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

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?

J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.

The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called 'Security' in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

'Yeezus,' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

Me and Stormzy. We're gonna do an album. We're gonna do an album of Nelson Riddle arrangements in grime form. It's gonna be called 'Griddle'.

In my mind, an album shouldn't be self-titled unless it feels that way.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

My first album was The Doobie Brothers... 'Captain and Me.' You always remember your first!

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

In 1970, my label decided I should do a Christmas album and I put a bunch of tunes together. We couldn't decide what to call it and so I said 'Why not just say Merry Christmas in Spanish? Feliz Navidad.' They said, 'That's cool, Jose, but we need a title song.' So I just sat down and started to play.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

The packaging of Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't have the name of the band, doesn't have the name of the album: It's got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn't quite get to No. 1 in the United States - it went to No. 2 - but stayed on the charts for years and years and years.

I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.