One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.