I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.