When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

I make the kind of music I like

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following