The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

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

'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.

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