I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.