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I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.