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Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

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've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

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.

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

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.