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I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.