I like my coffee like I like my romantic partners: cold and bitter and prone to giving me anxiety attacks.

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

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.