When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.
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It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!
I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
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.
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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