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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.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

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.

I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performing. There's a beautiful element to recording and making records, but I've always felt a little shy with it.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.

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.

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.