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. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

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.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

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

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