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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

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

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.