I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.
If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.