I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.
I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.
