Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.
The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.
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 felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.