Set Your Guitars And Banjos

With My Own Music, I Try To Get Away From Things That Are Familiar And Things That Would Be Easy For Me To Go To.

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

With Modern Recording Techniques, And Living In The Pro Tools Era, The Process Gets Really Drawn-out, And It Can Become Painstaking.

Your Heart Is A Drum Keeping Time With Everyone.

I Think It's Interesting Being American, The Expectations For An American Guy, And The Image That Has To Be Projected. 'oh, I Can't Wear Pink,' That Kind Of Stuff. There's None Of That In Europe.