Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

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

I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you know, I'm creating music and I'm not saying there isn't an audience because there is because all of those people go out and spend $80 to $150 on a concert ticket.

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 started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.