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I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.