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

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

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

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

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.

Like many musicians, it's my roots in music, playing cover songs. I've done probably a lot more covers than the average person who does what I do, but I'm very proud of it, and I do feel like I really bring a lot artistically to these covers.