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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

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.