My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?
To me, making records isn't work.
I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
I can't stand making records.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.
We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.