I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

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

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

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

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.