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

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.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

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.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.