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I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.

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

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

I think that, whatever happens, I'm just happy I've written those songs and I've made an album. That's really big for me, and I'm proud of that.

Yes, we are fortunate because as a band we've always been on the up, always getting more successful.