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

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

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.

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

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.