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I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

My first album came out in 1979.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

I did a CD way back in 1989, but I never got it off the ground.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.