People think our music’s very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it’s just the opposite, really… I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

In the last few years I’ve been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything’s tied in.

With most of the songs and music that I’ve composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves,...

Day is just a collection of hours.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you’ll have...

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think it’s my interaction with journalists that has pegged me more as political than my actual records, although they have obviously political aspects to them as well.