You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

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

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

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

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.