Lou Gramm Quotes

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I'm always working on a new album because I'm always writing, and I'm always in and out of my home studio.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

My first album was completed in three months.

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.