Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

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. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.