I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.