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.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

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

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.

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

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.

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.