I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
“I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.”
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I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
“I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.”
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“I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.”
“You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.”
“If I'm allowed it, I'm really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.”
“It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.”
“You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.”
“Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.”
“A Hard Day's Night' is the most perfect pop album you'll ever get to hear in your life; it's filled with definitive versions of the two-minute pop song.”
“I'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.”
“When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.”
“Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.”
“We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.”
“'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.”