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When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

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.

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.