I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

Science has failed our mother Earth.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.