Album Quote by Brad Delson

We're covering all our bases so we can do whatever we want next time. That's how we're looking at it, rather than this just…

— Robin Pecknold

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching…

— Bat for Lashes

The band likes to be different which each album, so that the listener is taken on a fascinating, but different journey each time.

— Maria Brink

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

— Daniel Johns

When the idea of doing all of our albums in their entirety came up, we went for it because it just seemed so audacious.…

— Russell Mael

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

— Chad Gilbert

Record the album after the tour.

— Andres Segovia

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of…

— Ed O'Brien

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

— Ted Leo

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

— Martin Gore

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

— Kate Bush

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

— John Darnielle