When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.

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.

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.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.