When did you feel like working on your singing voice was starting to turn in your favor?
I was working in a recording studio for years recording vocalists, so I knew what I was hearing and I was good at talking vocalists through singing and everything like that, but I couldn’t do it myself. I had an ear for it, because I did it every day as a job, so I could kind of tell when it was getting better and better, and I’d start to show friends and they'd be encouraging. And then eventually a friend booked me a show that was like two or three months away, so I had time. So, I had something solid to work towards. That was a big part of it as well.
You not only made the decision to do an album, but you also also decided that you were going to handle all the particulars (writing/recording/producing/instrumentation) yourself.
It was just inspiring to know that other people had done it that way. Ever since I heard that, I decided it was something that I really, really wanted to do. And also just from the fact that I would work in the studio and record - I wrote music for TV and stuff like that - I'd always be playing the stuff that I was recording, so I'd be the recorder/producer/engineer on that kind of thing.
I kind of knew that I could do it on a 30-second kind of song scale. I was like, "Surely I can transfer this to an album," and that was the challenge. It really was a self-challenge kind of thing.
What was the creative process like when putting the project together? Did you usually start with the melody or the lyrics?
I guess, both. I write on acoustic guitar. Not all of them are written on acoustic guitar, some of them I started on a drumbeat with a bass line or something like that. I think the majority of the songs I wrote on acoustic guitar. So when you're sitting there, you're kind of thinking about everything all at the same time.
What was the time period from recording the music to putting it out?
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