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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.
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 don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.
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.
As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.
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.
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.
I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.