As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they’re activists or not, that’s the important thing.

I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can’t really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

I like African music, and I’m a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.

I’d rather let the music speak for itself.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really...

I’ve always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or...

I’ve always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.