I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.