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 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.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

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.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.