We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost make it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

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

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.