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Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.