You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.