Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.