I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

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.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

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

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.