When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like Im in the middle of a battlefield.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.