Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Times change and you have to adapt.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.