I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I try not to do anything by formula.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.