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I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

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.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

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

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.