[It would be easy for him to just give a dismissive, flippant reply, but he's been thinking about this lately. There's another pause. He looks at his hands.]

I have changed. [That's a big thing for him to acknowledge, even if it may not sound like it.] I'm not the same guy who woke up here way back when. Hell, I don't think I'm the same guy who came back after being on the road with Dew and Margo and the crew.

It's something; I don't know if it's progress.