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I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

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.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.

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'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.