I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Part of the reason I'm doing Us + Them tour is to play my part in trying to spread the message that cooperation is a better way to resolve conflicts than confrontation. That bridges are better than walls, that nationalism and exceptionalism is destroying our world and destroying our lives.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.