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I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

I never liked making albums.

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

I've probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.

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.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

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.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.