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

We're all human and life is complicated.

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.

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.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

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.

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