You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.

It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just how not-crazy I am.