If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.
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The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.
You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.
I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.
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