Unreleased Material Quotes

For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'

When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.

I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

Everything I've ever done is out. I don't have boxes of unreleased stuff. There's nothing in the files. I can never keep anything unless I don't like the sound of it or it didn't work. If I can sing it to an engineer, I can sing it to anyone.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!