Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

We don't make music, it makes us

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.'

Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.