Lou Gramm American Musician Quotations

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I think we are looked upon as a veteran band.

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

We put out press releases to tell people what had happened to me and that I had a large weight gain but a lot of people still didn't know. The ones that didn't know were floored. That was a real humbling experience for me.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

But it was moving so fast that we didn't have time to dwell upon it, we went from an opening act to headlining, and we were out touring a long time.

About a year ago, I began to have creative breakthroughs both rhythmically and melodically. Ideas have been coming to me at a greater rate.

We had two albums out and we had 4-5 hits off of those two albums. That was pretty much unheard of at the time since the Beatles.

A lot of times Mick will play me different things, or I'll listen to a cassette, and out of twenty ideas or whatever, I'll find two or three that are just blowing me away, and we'll start working on them right away.

I really feel that I am ready to get back in the saddle and work with Mick. Everybody in the band, including management, is excited about it.

When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.