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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.