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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.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

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.