Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.
A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.
It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.