Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.