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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.

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.

I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.

Record-breaking is not getting boring. I am definitely happy with that.

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

Most of the time I don't force records. I'm not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months. I'm pretty long between records. I've only had a few in my career. I kind of wait until I feel I have really strong songs. I don't know if they're going to change the world or not, but I dig 'em, and if I dig 'em we make a record.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.