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

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

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'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

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.

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.