I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings, we have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part. Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people, so we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.

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.

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.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.