I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

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

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.