The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

You know, it's people's lives, so as you get a little older, your own life narrative, I guess, invades a little more. It's not like we're traveling in separate buses to each show. It's a labor of love, so we just do it because we like it. Maybe someone's gonna move, or not want to go on a tour for some reason - that could happen, I guess.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

I don't even think my voice is really good.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

I really do think everybody can sing.