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At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

I wanted to be someone who wanted to produce music, and here I am, and I'm happy about it.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.