I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.