I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.