I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Some people they simply just want to hear you. And others actually have things they want to share and talk with you about. So it's important for me to be as strong as I can when I leave home so I can hold space for all of it.

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.