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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.

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.

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.