I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.