Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.

I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

It's not my way to talk about my feelings. They're impudent to myself, so it wouldn't make any sense if I tried to explain them to anyone else. I've never been to therapy - not interested in it.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.