What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

American society has gone completely into denial.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

And the live show is still our main thing.