I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.
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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.
I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.
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.
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.
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.
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 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.