Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

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 the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.