The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.

You make the world - with enough strength and enough luck you make the world that you live in. If you accept that there's participation to be done and an existence to be had - I tend to think there is only one way I want to go through this existence and that's with my eyes open and my chest out.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about creating music. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."