I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
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.
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.
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.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.