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

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.