My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs.
I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.
I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.