I'm not the same as I was long ago, I've learned some new things and I hope that it shows.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.