Open up your heart and the sky is yours.
Open up your plans and damn you're free!
As an American citizen, one has to vote.
Humans will always endure suffering - even accepting the fact that we're going to die will cause us suffering, and from that stems a little pessimism and negativity that all of us are susceptible to.
I've always used songwriting as a way to help me organise reality.
By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.