“I tried on so many titles,” he says with a laugh. “But in the end, it was the simplest name that fit this record the best. At the end of the day, you strip it all off and that’s what it comes down to: great songs that are about the smallest things and people who are living just beyond the rules. I mean . . . you could say that anyone living on the road, always waking up somewhere else, they’re living the pirate life, too.”