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I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour.

Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

Touring can be repetitive at times.