It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great deal of pleasure from watching the sun rise and set, admiring clouds as they change shape across the sky, watching tree leaves and blossoms undulate in the breeze....these treats foment an ocular-cleansing refreshment to my way of thinking.

Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!