I’ve never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

I am not a pop musician; I don’t want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I’ve recorded to an acoustic thing.

I’m not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody’s rear end.

I haven’t stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

I’ve got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I’m just getting older and better.

Nobody’s perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.

And he said, 'You never know.' And I said, 'I guess we won't, unless you do the show.'