Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

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.

How do we let people pay for music?

The cool thing too, as you get older, you get way better at identifying who's an ally and who isn't. And who has good, positive, "let's make all this sh*t better and let's try to have fun and fix sh*t" people as opposed to "let's sit around and b*tch and berate" people.