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All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

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 thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.

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

Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.

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

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.