Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.