You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.

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.

I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful people who feel incredibly entitled, perhaps justifiably, but I don't want to be around viciously entitled people.

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

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.