Record Quotes

My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have endless discussions about them. So I got my first record player when I was 11 years old.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fight back.

There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Just before I record, I go buy a few albums to see what people are doing. Whether they have improved any, or whether anything happened. And nothing's really happened. There's a lot of great guitarists and musicians around, but nothing's happening, you know.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.