I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.