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

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

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

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

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

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.