When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.- Richard Marx
The only thing that is a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you are feeling or going through now.
So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
People take songs so literally.
One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
My joke, which is not really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we have never written songs in the same room.
It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.
I have never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.
I have never written a song that I thought was a hit.
I have always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.
I am now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
I am happy, I would say that I am one of the happiest people I know but I have certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I have always liked and wanted to make.
