My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

My wife is very happy about me keeping all my music in my pocket.

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, 'Hey, here's 10 more songs'.