Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.