Most great records really start with the drums.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.

When you present people with things from the heart and from the soul, they make better choices: They make better choices about their bodies, they make better choices about their partners, they make better choices about the environment.

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.