I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.

I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.

When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.