For Me Able To Do The Records

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 Went Back And Listened To The First Three Albums I Made And Tried To Figure Out What Was Special About Them, Why People Keep Going Back To Them. I Think It Was Because I Didn't Know What I Was Doing. I Had No Idea If They Were Going To Play It On The Radio Or Anything. All I Did Was Write Songs, So That's What I Got Back To.

As I've Gotten Older, Now I've Really Got To Back That Up With Record Sales. Anytime Showed Me That I Could Still Have Some Of Those Elements I Wanted, But You Still Have To Come With Hit After Hit After Hit.

Most Of The Stuff I Learned To Play, I Learned In High School. I Had A Band In High School, A Jazz-fusion Thing, And I Was The Keyboard Player. I Was Interested In How The Instruments Worked And The Theory Behind Playing With Them.

Back In College, When I Got Kicked Out Of School, I Was Still In School, I'd Just Written The Song That Got Me My Record Deal. If I Hadn't Gotten Kicked Out Of School I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Now. Three Months After That, I Got My Record Deal And The Rest Is History.