Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.

To put things back into perspective, back when we as people were struggling to survive through winters, or even through the night, I feel like there's a lot of whining about whether or not you use Asian or the words Asian or Oriental, and how it's going to offend somebody, I mean give me - I mean, just shut up.

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.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.