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I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

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.