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I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.