All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
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.
Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.
I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.