I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball...

I think it’s become such a part of younger people’s daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it’s OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

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.

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

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.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

I’ve dreamed about performing songs, songs that don’t even exist, as a complete song.

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it’s going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.

I am always thinking music.