When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.