I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

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

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.