As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
Some people get on the whole touring circuit for years and years and years on one record. What interests me is sitting down at a piano, writing songs, getting into a studio and exploring new sounds to come up with something I'm really proud of.
It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.
I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.
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.