Album Completion Quotes

My first album was completed in three months.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

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

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

Now I'm at a point where I decided I'm going to be in the studio for a while, at least until I finish this record I'm working on now. I should have two, three, four of the sessions that I had that were similar to the sessions for Peace Trail before I have a complete record.

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own.

The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

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 kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love.

Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.