I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
I'm passionate about creating new systems that are more holistic to humankind. What do I mean by that? I mean, create new systems of business so that people with ethics both exploit their goods and their gifts while not exploiting the earth, exploiting one another.
I think it would be very interesting to see that many people would probably be okay with paying more for services and goods that they felt were more holistically [generated]. Which means the death of the old system which rewarded people for taking advantage of one another.
I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one.
I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.
That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.
I don't mean this in any sort of trite way, ... but the music has really been the thing that has healed us over and over again. It is the thing that has held us together and taught us about each other.