I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually do fight evil in this world. And what am I doing? I bang on some drums in a rock band. I try to tell myself that by doing that, I'm fighting evil - which is completely absurd. Music is not equipped in any way to fight against anything. Other than, I guess, it could fight against silence.

It's a great privilege to be able to play that much. When you play a lot, you can be really detail-oriented.

I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.