It takes forever if you go by inertia.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!