When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

I've been fortunate to view the world as if Tom Cruise is constantly walking in front of me on his way across a tarmac before an aerial dogfight. I'm speaking cinematically here. The homoeroticism was an accident that I wont dismiss.

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.

I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.