Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.