A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.

There's an obligation to let people know where their money is going, so the tour has an educational aspect, mostly as a way to thank people. But the most practical use is to raise money and do the research to figure out the proper ways to spend it. You want to make sure that the money doesn't just go somewhere where it does more harm than good.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.