A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.
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The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do.
I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that might have been really successful, and you're trying to outdo that or trying to make something that does not sound like the last record.
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