What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.