Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.