When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

Here I am, on the road again. There I am, up on the stage. Here I go, playing star again. There I go, turn the page.

You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.

Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.