When You Work With Somebody For A

It Was Disturbing To Me That An Idea Or A Song Could Become Something So Different From What You Originally Intended. It's Like If A Friend Took A Stupid Picture Of You At A Party On Their Phone, And The Next Thing You Knew, It Was On Every Billboard.

You Spend So Many Months And Years In The Studio, And You See The Clock Ticking And So Much Time Spent On The Minutiae Of Technical Things. And I Just Thought It'd Be Fun To Do Something Extremely Fast And Get That Rush Of Something That Had Some Energy, Something That You Weren't Tired Of When You Finished It.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

No One Should Drive A Hard Bargain With An Artist.

I Grew Up I Guess You'd Say In The Cassette Era.