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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.