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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.