I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

I'm not a true vegan.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.