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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.