I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.