In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

I think your life informs your art.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.