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When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.