People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

Why can't a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'the Catcher in the Rye' and 'Harry Potter'?

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.