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

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

Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.

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

Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment.

I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.

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.