I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance 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.
It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.