I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.

It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.