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.

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

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.

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