Quote

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

As an independent artist, you're always figuring out how you're going to fund your next album.

Writing songs is a trade like anything else.

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.