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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.