Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.

People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.

Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.