It’s been five years since your last record, and it took you three years to make the new one. What does this longer stretch of time give you?
I think honestly it just comes down to the fact I need to stew in things for a while. It’s not necessarily a matter of putting the work in, because we were working pretty steadily in that time. You may write three to five songs in a given timeframe but they might not necessarily have the correct feeling. I wasn’t obsessed