That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I'm still the king of me.

Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people out to play before they become famous, but we did do that so the fans we have are word of mouth fans who have been travelling around with us for years, and they buy the albums, but they are also the ones who go out and get the bootlegs. I don't discourage bootlegging, I like playing live, I don't think it hurts my album sales at all if there are bootlegs out there. Who cares?

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.