I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.

The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.