I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.

I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.

In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing