I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

I privilege the music over the lyrics

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.