Arto Lindsay Quotes

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

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.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

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.

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

The first record we put out on Fueled by Ramon, 'The Papercut Chronicles,' we had no idea what the term 'producer' meant. It was just us writing songs, and we are trying to go back to that - singing in a room and vibing off each other.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

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

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.'

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

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