I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life.

I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

My wish list is pretty short. I wish that we had empathy. As a society, we are so wrapped up in our own artificial creations that we have become disconnected from one another and the wonder of our natural world. I truly believe that empathy is the key to solving the majority of our environmental and social problems.

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth