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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 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.

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.