I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.