It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.

It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.