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.

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

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.

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

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

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

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.