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.

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

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.

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

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.