The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.