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?

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with