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I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!

I have a feeling a lot of the records I grew up listening to and the records I still like, as hard as musicians worked making them, I feel like they were really enjoying what they were going through. They weren't just going through the process. You can tell that with certain things that you listen to.

I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.

Most of the time I don't force records. I'm not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months. I'm pretty long between records. I've only had a few in my career. I kind of wait until I feel I have really strong songs. I don't know if they're going to change the world or not, but I dig 'em, and if I dig 'em we make a record.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.