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I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

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

It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

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.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.