I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

A lot of people aren't aware of the years and years of humiliation and horrible shows I've played.

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.