I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.