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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

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

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.