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

We're all human and life is complicated.

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

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.

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

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.