I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

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

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.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.