The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.