I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

I think music is another language.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.