I Am Excited To Get On Tour,

Ideally The Point Of Music Is Community, Not The Player. Musicians Are Simply Channels To Link The Audience To The Music And To Each Other.

The Biggest Sacrifice To Me Is To Not Be In An Atmosphere Where I Can Keep Writing And Moving Forward.

Music Is A Spiritual Expression Of What's In Your Heart. Music As A Way Of Getting Rich Is A Pretty New Thing, And I Often Wonder If The Mega-bucks Glitzy Atmosphere Is Making The Quality Of Music Suffer. You Have To Work Really Hard To Get Around That And Remember Why You're In It In The First Place: Because You Have To Be. It's Like An Addiction. You Can't Go A Day Without Picking Up Your Guitar. To Me, The Only Commercial Goals That Are Really Valid Are, 'boy, I Wish I Didn't Have To Go To Work. I Wish I Could Do This All The Time.'

I've Been Sober For Two-and-a-half Years, My Children Are Happy. In August, My Wife And I Will Celebrate Our Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary. My Band Is Back Together With A Sold-out Tour.

Ideally The Point Of Music Is Community, Not The Player. Musicians Are Simply Channels To Link The Audience To The Music And To Each Other.