December 2011
21 posts
“We spent 2011 making an album that we’re really proud of and can’t wait to share with you. Because you’ve been such good boys and girls, we’ll be kicking off 2012 with a sneak peek of a brand new song to whet your appetite for what’s to come.”
—Scissor Sisters
“There’ll be a lot more pain in the lyrics on my next album. For the seven years before I signed my record deal I was in a bad place and I was scared that I couldn’t get out of it. That’s why I wrote such upbeat music, as a way of trying to escape how I felt.”
—Jessie J (Daily Star)
“The moment I thought to myself: ‘I’m never going to make it, I may as well just make music that I like’ is the moment I met Amy – we just created what we and she wanted rather than being concerned about what was on the radio at the time. If you try and chase that sort of success, you just end up making cookie-cutter records.”
—Mark Ronson
“I never revisited his [Kurt Cobain] music again until I was about 17 or 18, and then when I did, it still meant just as much to me then. It’s continued to be my primary inspiration – in terms of not wanting to compromise lyrically or sonically.”
—Lana Del Rey
“My dream would be to be in a Woody Allen movie”
—Lady Gaga
