Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Why would twenty-six-year-old "teenagers" care about political ramifications if their backs are not up against the wall? But if their backs are against the wall they may be plucked to fight in Iraq, and all of sudden they become politicized real quick.

I always remain optimistic.

Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.