We Don't Have To Miss Each Other,

I Can't See Going Onstage Wearing A Long-sleeve Shirt In The Dead Of Summer. I Work Out Hard During The Day With A Trainer Who Monitors Everything I Put In My Mouth When I'm On Tour. When I First Got A Record Deal, You Can Tell By My Early Album Covers That Working Out Wasn't That Much A Part Of My Life.

Certain Nights, When Everything's Perfect And We Have Thousands Of People Partying Their Asses Off, I Break My Rule And Have A Drink Onstage. I've Never Done A Show Drunk. Well, I Take That Back. In The Early Days I Did.

There Are Only So Many Hours You Can Sit On The Bus And Watch Tv Or Play Basketball Or Whatever We Do To Pass The Time Before We Go Out Onstage.

I'm Proud Of The Fact That I'm At A Point In My Career That If I Want To Take A Little Bit Of A Left Turn And Make An Album That Is More Hushed, More Acoustic And More Personal, That I Can Do It.

I Took A Complete Year Off The Road, But A Big Part Of That Year Was Making 'the Big Revival.' I Needed That Down Time Just So I Could Concentrate. The One Thing That Starts It All For Us Is The Music. That's What You Create In The Studio. That's Where The Magic Happens.