I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on.
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All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.
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Sometimes songwriting can turn into a gossip column, and I try to avoid that as much as I can.
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I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.
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Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.
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And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.
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I read actual books. It's cool to read on a Kindle if that's what you want to do, but for me, I like having a bookshelf.
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I love the idea of having a beer with a lot of the musicians I admire.
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I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.