Everybody Is Influenced By Someone.

I Never Wrote Music Or Arranged Songs Or Lyrics When I Was Under The Influence Of Anything But Coffee. That's Not Gone Away.

I Think That Sometimes Almost The Bigger Tragedy In A Weird Way Is All Of The Future Imagined Creative Projects That Could Have Happened That Didn't. I Feel The Same Way About Lots Of Brilliant People Who Die Young, Kind Of Senselessly Especially.

To Me, Music Shouldn't Be Ego-driven. When You Go Out On Stage And Play Songs, It Is. But When You're Sitting In A Room, Writing Songs, It's A Completely Different Process. It's A Completely Different Place. It's A Creative Place, A Musical Place. It Has Nothing To Do With Who Likes What.

I Would Hope That The Future Would Have An International Community That's Not Just Bent On Commerce, But That's Focused On Refugees, Of All Kinds And From All Places. We Don't Know That Won't Happen In The U.s. Someday. It Literally Could Be A Crisis From Climate Change, Or Anything. I Think There Needs To Be A Global Focus On People Taking Care Of People.

At The End Of The Day It's The Fans Who Make You Who You Are.