When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic qualities, on people who are suffering from adulthood. By these people, I mean, I really feel bad. I think that in their sadness, they're destroying the world. The way that they're destroying the world manifests itself in all these various causes that you have banding together all over the place.

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I absolutely feel like I need to write a song about it, I'll either need to transform that anger into something positive, or I'll just need to throw the song away. Because eventually, I'm going to want to transcend that pain and that anger.

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.