We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

You are the reason. If you want, you are the answer in the end.

I love X-Games music.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

This state of independence shall be!

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.