I've spent several years now with my head down.

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.