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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 wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.

My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome.