There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?
There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.
I think it's important to update my fans on what I'm doing and where I'm going next and when my next single is going to drop and my album.
I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.
People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.
Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.
I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.
I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.
There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.
Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
The only albums that I have personally named were 'number 5,' 'number 8' and 'number 10.'
My fans should always be ready for new music.
I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!
Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.
Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.
After 'Tina Snow' dropped, I had so many performances and so many appearances, and I'm in the studio all the time.
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'
God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I'm like the Dos Equis guy. I don't normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.
I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.
We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
