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I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

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.

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

As I grew up, I wasn't a great buyer of albums, but I really liked 'The Jam.' I like good musicians and loved the energy of their songs.