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T.I.![]()
The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.
RITA ORA![]()
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st...
PATTI SMITH![]()
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye...
THEOPHILUS LONDON![]()
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it ...
ACE FREHLEY My first album was completed in three months.
ADAM LAMBERT I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al...
JOHNNY RAMONE![]()
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
RITA RUDNER It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s...
M.I.A.![]()
I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal...
JULIE LONDON![]()
For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.
COLE SWINDELL![]()
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough albu...
FAITH HILL The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUNISHER The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUN I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro...
ALAN PARSONS I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE![]()
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY![]()
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche...
CHRIS BROWN I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
PATRICK CARNEY Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE![]()
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
HALSEY![]()
Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a...
KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN We market Shania [Twain] like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally.
DAVID LORY I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to th...
SONNY TERRY![]()
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress...
HENRY ROLLINS And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
WANDA JACKSON![]()
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off tha...
DIMEBAG DARRELL I know that we ask a lot for our fans with every album, but I think that's how it should be. This al...
KJETIL NORDHUS On this album, we wanted to make everything a little more articulate and obvious, ... The last album...
YUKA HONDA I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
DONNA DOUGLAS![]()
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit...
GARY WRIGHT Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit ch...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on th...
DUNCAN SHEIK![]()
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After ...
PETER CRISS I was hoping the album would do well. But the nomination gives it a little validation, I guess. I me...
DANA LANDRY And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert...
WANDA JACKSON The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the...
KATIE MELUA I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
BUBBA SPARXXX![]()
I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first al...
ELLIE GOULDING![]()
On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and...
AVRIL LAVIGNE A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multi...
JULIE ROBERTS![]()
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a cle...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. S...
TAYLOR MOMSEN I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album ...
MICHAEL SPRADLIN![]()
I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected.
DAVID SANBORN The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
MARC ALMOND I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urg...
ED KOWALCZYK I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can eit...
THOMAS RHETT![]()
Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole...
RIVERS CUOMO![]()
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel ...
ALEX EBERT J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was...
HASAN MINHAJ Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but...
GERRY BECKLEY If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered a...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN![]()
She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the video...
FAITH HILL![]()
There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI![]()
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
WARREN ZEVON![]()
I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
RIVERS CUOMO![]()
I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b...
HANNIBAL BURESS I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN I don't like the phrase 'sophomore jinx. But it was there in my head: This album had to be much bett...
HEATHER HEADLEY I really felt, before we started this album, that there was unfinished business,
DEPECHE MODE![]()
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his calle...
BENNY GREEN I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN It's our most pop album since our first.
MARC ALMOND Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO![]()
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the s...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album s...
FLUME![]()
I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,
ERIC CLAPTON I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude.
JAMIE FOXX![]()
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE![]()
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu...
JOHN LEGEND They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.
KEVIN RICHARDSON![]()
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved...
YAEL NAIM This album really has to make a statement. We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now...
DUFF MCKAGAN For Silk Route, my album 'Dooba Dooba' was a resounding success.
MOHIT CHAUHAN![]()
They should be shot. [on the Backstreet Boys ]
NOEL GALLAGHER![]()
Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - t...
IDINA MENZEL It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke E...
ABBEY LINCOLN![]()
When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and...
JERRY HALL![]()
I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album.
STEPHEN COLBERT![]()
'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous...
CHARLI XCX I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
JEFF LYNNE![]()
While I was backstage before presenting the Best New Artist award, I talked to George Strait for a w...
TAYLOR SWIFT My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you...
BACKSTREET BOYS I Want It That Way,
BACKSTREET BOYS Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely,
BACKSTREET BOYS What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,00...
BACKSTREET BOYS![]()
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of fores...
ACE FREHLEY I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ...
NEIL DIAMOND![]()
I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
KANYE WEST The guy who killed Henry was not talking (on his album) about wonderful things. It was hatred and vi...
CAPT. GARY SCHOFIELD![]()
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#...
VANESSA CARLTON![]()
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White...
RINGO STARR
T.I.
The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha. RITA ORA
I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st... PATTI SMITH
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye... THEOPHILUS LONDON
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it ... ACE FREHLEY My first album was completed in three months.
ADAM LAMBERT I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first al...
JOHNNY RAMONE
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album. RITA RUDNER It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s...
M.I.A.
I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha... RUSSELL PETERS I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal...
JULIE LONDON
For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff. COLE SWINDELL
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough albu... FAITH HILL The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUNISHER The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
BIG PUN I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro...
ALAN PARSONS I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, ...
VANESSA MAE
'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t... TORI KELLY
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punche... CHRIS BROWN I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
PATRICK CARNEY Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. HALSEY
Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a... KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN We market Shania [Twain] like a pop star because she is a pop star internationally.
DAVID LORY I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to th...
SONNY TERRY
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress... HENRY ROLLINS And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
WANDA JACKSON
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off tha... DIMEBAG DARRELL I know that we ask a lot for our fans with every album, but I think that's how it should be. This al...
KJETIL NORDHUS On this album, we wanted to make everything a little more articulate and obvious, ... The last album...
YUKA HONDA I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
DONNA DOUGLAS
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place wit... GARY WRIGHT Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for a...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit ch...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on th...
DUNCAN SHEIK
When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After ... PETER CRISS I was hoping the album would do well. But the nomination gives it a little validation, I guess. I me...
DANA LANDRY And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert...
WANDA JACKSON The second album was like being on a completely different planet compared to when we were making the...
KATIE MELUA I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.
BUBBA SPARXXX
I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first al... ELLIE GOULDING
On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and... AVRIL LAVIGNE A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multi...
JULIE ROBERTS
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a cle... JAMES WELDON JOHNSON One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. S...
TAYLOR MOMSEN I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album ...
MICHAEL SPRADLIN
I did the first album, and it did much better than anyone expected. DAVID SANBORN The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
MARC ALMOND I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urg...
ED KOWALCZYK I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can eit...
THOMAS RHETT
Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole... RIVERS CUOMO
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel ... ALEX EBERT J. Cole's 2014 'Forrest Hills Drive.' The album, artwork, and director of that album was...
HASAN MINHAJ Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO Our friends in the group Chicago, they just numbered theirs and we thought that was kind of neat but...
GERRY BECKLEY If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered a...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN
She [Shania Twain] brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the video... FAITH HILL
There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis... MAHERSHALA ALI
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage. WARREN ZEVON
I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time. RIVERS CUOMO
I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b... HANNIBAL BURESS I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN I don't like the phrase 'sophomore jinx. But it was there in my head: This album had to be much bett...
HEATHER HEADLEY I really felt, before we started this album, that there was unfinished business,
DEPECHE MODE
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his calle... BENNY GREEN I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN It's our most pop album since our first.
MARC ALMOND Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people...
NAMIE AMURO
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the s... NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album s...
FLUME
I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be, ERIC CLAPTON I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude.
JAMIE FOXX
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the chu... JOHN LEGEND They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.
KEVIN RICHARDSON
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved... YAEL NAIM This album really has to make a statement. We've toured for 18 months. Now we have a brand name. Now...
DUFF MCKAGAN For Silk Route, my album 'Dooba Dooba' was a resounding success.
MOHIT CHAUHAN
They should be shot. [on the Backstreet Boys ] NOEL GALLAGHER
Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - t... IDINA MENZEL It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke E...
ABBEY LINCOLN
When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and... JERRY HALL
I loved George Carlin and Dean Martin. I was one of those kids who had every comedy album. STEPHEN COLBERT
'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous... CHARLI XCX I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?
JEFF LYNNE
While I was backstage before presenting the Best New Artist award, I talked to George Strait for a w... TAYLOR SWIFT My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ I'd walk half way around the world... for just one kiss from you...
BACKSTREET BOYS I Want It That Way,
BACKSTREET BOYS Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely,
BACKSTREET BOYS What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,00...
BACKSTREET BOYS
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of fores... ACE FREHLEY I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ...
NEIL DIAMOND
I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever. KANYE WEST The guy who killed Henry was not talking (on his album) about wonderful things. It was hatred and vi...
CAPT. GARY SCHOFIELD
I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It&#... VANESSA CARLTON
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White... RINGO STARR
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ... 
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t... 
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation. 
The proper study of Mankind is Man. 
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. 