A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture.

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

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.