You have all these song titles and song time, and you put it in a certain order, and you slap a cover on it. That's a record. That's how I've seen all my records.
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Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.
You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.
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.
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
A record is just a snapshot of where you are at any time.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.