But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasn't even in the running for failure!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can understand why we got bad reviews. We went right over people's heads. One album would follow another and would have nothing to do with what we'd done before. People didn't know what was going on.
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.