It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

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