When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this yourself - it's not that every night is not it's own thing. It is.

Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors do, and park myself at a desk and bang things out for three hours. And if I have to throw it all away, I throw it all away.

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.