Air Quote by Jens Lekman

I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be…

— Dawn Richard

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

— Raekwon

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

— Janet Jackson

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

— Kylie Minogue

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

— G-Eazy

I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!

— Michael McDonald

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

— Gloria Trevi

I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when…

— Lewis Capaldi

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a…

— Vanessa Carlton

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to…

— Keren Ann

I wanted to make the album that my kid self dreamed of, a hybrid of pop/rock but with drums out the front.

— G Flip

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo