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

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.

We're all human and life is complicated.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

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

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