For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.