If you want to promote anything, all the work that you put into it is basically promoting the idea of it so that people will go for it. And if they don't go for it, you can't institute it. You can't do it.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

The stockbrokers, their hair isn't long and full of leaves and stuff like that, so they don't catch your eye. They're wearing the tie-dye, so they don't stick out, but you don't see them. The ones you see are the ones with the leaves in their hair, the matted hair and all that kind of stuff.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.