But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.
People don't really listen to albums anymore. They just find good songs.
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.