I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.