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

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

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

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

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

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.

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.