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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.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.