Ben [Peeler] and I have known each other for a decade. He trusts my crazy ideas and spontaneous combustion and he gets the players I want and knows the kind of personality players I like. He has taste that I trust and that to me is more important than any technical things.

I like strength. I depend on my own.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

I write about what I know.