I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

We're all human and life is complicated.