I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?