Iconic Album Quotes

To the general public in America, the lifespan of Deep Purple probably finished with our 1984 album, 'Perfect Strangers.'

The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

'Nevermind' by Nirvana. That was a big one for me.

'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'

I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.

'Frampton Comes Alive!' is the album I'll always be remembered for. I'm very proud of the music that's on it. Why it exploded the way it did and continues to live on are things that can't fully be explained.

When the 'Thriller' album came up, we all knew that was going to be the cool record.

Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

'Purple Rain' is probably the best soundtrack.

'The White Album' is so cool because it was around the time when the Beatles started to not like each other, so they would each go off and do their own thing. It's all over the place, but that's what makes the album so brilliant.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

I'll always be remembered for 'Frampton Comes Alive!,' but I've got so much other work that I've done since that, that I feel it's almost like after 'Frampton Comes Alive!' ran its course, my career - I'll say it - 'Petered' out.

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.