I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.

You feel that no matter what's said in the music or how pointed it may get, the most you can wish for is that it plants a few seeds.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

It's not a bad time to be me.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.