As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time