When I play, I open up. I'm in the heat of the performance and it's a healing thing. It's great! It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage. It takes on this incredible feeling of levitating and the molecules spin differently in the moment.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.