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It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.