I'm Staring at the Asphalt, Yeah

I think it's probably all the beats I read back in college and the open road and the expansiveness of the American highway system has always been incredibly inspiring to me. We do find that songwriters sometimes have preoccupations with things. The hardest thing to do as a songwriter as you move into your second or even third decade or fourth decade, I guess in Neil's case, is to continue to use the language that is signature to how you communicate while also trying to find new ways to kind of bend the words to fit your life in its current context.