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I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.

For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.