Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
I have been recording for five decades now.
When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.
Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.