Cords Quotations | Page 3

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

You are what your record says you are.

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.

A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.