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.

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.

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

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.

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