AJ Tracey Quotes

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.