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People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.