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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I've got to set the record straight. And you can't set half the record straight; when you tell it, you've got to tell it all.

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

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.