I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.
A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
We've written something like 900 songs in all.
I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.