I think that people get outraged over things. I think what we really need is a kind of borderline extinction level event to get people back to caring about what really matters.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.