Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.