Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire…

I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.

— Matt Holliday

“Just be kind, it's that simple.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a…

— Thundercat

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

— Les Baxter

I definitely want to put out and album, kind of like a Kelly Clarkson vibe: a soulful voice with a pop rock background. I…

— Katie Stevens

When sequencing an album, you kind of have to look at it like you're making a movie with different acts, and you have ebb…

— Mike Portnoy

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind…

— Jose James

Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come…

— Darren Criss

I try to structure albums in a pattern, like in a way where there's a motif that runs throughout or some kind of conceit…

— Tim Hecker

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

— Benji Madden

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That…

— Tom Araya

I want to show who CL is on my first solo album.

— CL

There's a song called 'All We'd Ever Need,' which is actually the first song that the three of us wrote together on our first…

— Hillary Scott

The first album I ever purchased and ever remember listening to in full length was 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'

— Doechii

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic…

— John Legend