These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.

Music is just air moving around.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

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