I'm noticing again and again and again, they're saying this is a good living room record. It's not a good radio record.

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

I really started hearing a sound for the band for the first time instead of just hearing a sound for the record. So I started trying to put together a specific band that could record with me and also tour with me. And I felt that it was enough of a change in approach to warrant to a change of the name.

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

We don't try to make a specifically commercially approachable kind of record. We're just trying to make the music we normally play and these are the audio choices that we have made for how to present the record.