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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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