Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

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 do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

I struggle sometimes superficially with my management or with my own career about how much time I spend traveling or giving myself away to promote my music or myself when I'd rather be gardening or surfing or being at home with my loved ones. And everyone struggles with that; everyone struggles with having to go to work. And I struggle with how humankind ended up this way.

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.

To create an album of 12 songs, I've got to write about 80 songs. Half of those are totally weird and rubbish.