I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.