You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.

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

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.