I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.