Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.