It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
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Related The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain. CASSADEE POPE I'm obsessed with cheese and milk, but eliminating them from my diet made the biggest difference... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those f... BRUCE COCKBURN I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last. DICK DALE I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his v... JOHN GREEN I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first ti... ROBERT PALMER My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ... MADI DIAZ 'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t... TORI KELLY It wasn't a big meeting. I was coming from the clubhouse and he came my way. That's what he said, 'D... CARLOS DELGADO We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u... ANTHONY KIEDIS It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to ... RIHANNA My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune... LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i... KELSEA BALLERINI Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The first shot I took in the game, he blocked. After that it was in my head that his arms were way l... DEVIN TARRANT Hearing the Evanescence album you can obviously tell that David and Ben have a real passion for that... KELLY CLARKSON My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota F... JOSH TURNER the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ... NEIL DIAMOND That was my pride and joy - that I made it through all those years of minor hockey without losing an... TOM GLAVINE What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some... MARTINA MCBRIDE I was amazed that we ended up with someone like that in the community. He could have gone anywhere. DAVE KLINK Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around ... KURT VONNEGUT When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand... BILLY PORTER I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky... CHARLIE DANIELS I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a hor... VICENTE FOX A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something l... MAC DEMARCO I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I coul... MICHAEL BUBLE I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with so... JOHN GREEN I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was al... PSY This is pretty serious. But it could have been a lot worse. All that rubble and stuff could have end... DOUG KEKONA I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It... VANESSA CARLTON I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like ... DUSTIN LYNCH And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I ... CRAIG THOMPSON I really didn't intend to sing it, ... It happened like it did with the songs from 'Charlie' and 'Ni... DANNY ELFMAN We market Shania [Twain] like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally. DAVID LORY Nothing safe about what I do. I like someone to tell me what is safe about going in about following ... GARY HOLT 'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night w... BRIAN ENO My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu... JOHN LEGEND Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST I just could not take it in. Magnus was vulnerable in a way because he was hopelessly shy and had ne... FRANCIS JONES I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Co... JEAN-PASCAL TRICOIRE My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It ... THOM YORKE Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the lo... AUTRE NE VEUT That was a fluke. I'd recorded a lot of stuff for this record. I worked on it over a year. Toward th... LEE ROCKER I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and sudde... FELISBERTO HERNáNDEZ It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them ... DAVID FRIEDMAN I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a ... ALIA BHATT Tyler is an awesome player and the other guys really compliment what he does. It seemed like any tim... DAN GONZALEZ Otis took the attitude that he was going to hire people who he felt could do the job and then let th... BILL THOMAS When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every ro... TAYLOR HICKS I think it's better that way. I'm happy with the way my career went and ended and I'm not coming bac... LANCE ARMSTRONG When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of like... MICK MARS He basically just said, 'I need to stretch my legs out. I've been sleeping in that tank with my knee... DAVID BLOOM My momma took out of there what she could and I had it in my apartment in storage and this is all th... ANGELA LINDSEY When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ... FRANK OCEAN That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it's something... DOUG ROBB And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away ... VINCE GILL I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is... SONU NIGAM Watching the painter painting And all the time, the light is changing And he keeps paintin... KATE BUSH I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I... SIGOURNEY WEAVER Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Fa... GEOFFREY HILL Growing up, my inspirations were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, all these martial arts legends. I wanted to... TIGER SHROFF I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for i... ROGER WATERS I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like ... MARIA V. SNYDER I had an idea that it would just, I was going to do a four-record deal with Rounder. I was going to ... GEORGE THOROGOOD When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a ... ELLA HENDERSON Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that... MATT BELLAMY Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soun... BOB DYLAN But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. T... DUSTIN PENNER I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not.... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG I think everybody was excited and a little nervous with Robert out. But Tyler Smith did a great job ... DOUG EVANS I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all da... J. COLE She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the video... FAITH HILL I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ... COWBOY TROY I think the album really is about -- it's a reflection of where I am and (where) I've been for the l... DIANA ROSS When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mat... EL DEBARGE Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but... GERRY BECKLEY For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook... NICHOLAS SPARKS All the great people learn from the people before them. Chris took one approach and did things the w... AARON GRAY Like everyone else, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. The only way I know how to handle th... ALEX RODRIGUEZ In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It... IMELDA MAY It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but no... SCOTT SPENCER Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometim... RAINER MARIA RILKE They got out on our shooters, pressed them and didn't give us easy looks all game. They really took ... JOSH MARKO I was pleased that we did not give up and call it quits when we were down by 17. But all the girls b... DERRICK DELTON I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understan... M.I.A. I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I ca... BLACK ELK It was ridiculous what he was calling - and not calling. I don't know where the water bottle came fr... KRIS WALTZE When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an... VANESSA MAE This was a game that had me a little worried because we were playing a team that was just beginning ... DALE LORTZ My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck,... SASCHA RADETSKY You have to have a collective group of guys that just want to demolish anything in a different color... WILLIE MCGINEST I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit... GARY WRIGHT My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us... CHUCK CLOSE
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