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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.