I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

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

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

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 think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.