I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I tend to pour myself into my music and I don't have a lot of other places my mind goes, unless it's spending time with family and friends.