Ahead Quote by Ryan Ross

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had…

— Morten Harket

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

— The Weeknd

We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question.

— Shawn Crahan

It's the worst feeling, going into your record label when you haven't got a hit. It was like: 'Maybe you've lost it.' And, once…

— Jonas Blue

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

— Lauryn Hill

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

— Kirk Hammett

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want, you know? Without catching hell…

— Jonathan Meiburg

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer…

— Gene Ween

I hate it when bands keep making the same record over and over, so we're pushing ourselves to try new things and experiment in…

— Wayne Static

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to…

— Lupe Fiasco

As long as we were making music that we felt was of the same quality, there was no reason to stop making records, but…

— John Dolmayan