It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them.

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.

Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we do with oil - we've been experiencing [these problems] at an accelerated rate. The scary end-game scenario is getting closer and closer, about what we're going to be able to do to sustain life on this planet as we have come to know it. And I think this is a very real possibility, that we could be dealing with conditions we have no idea how to wrestle with.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.