“My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn’t get me anywhere then at least it wasn’t because I tried to be something I’m not.”

I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that’s what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it’s always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I love playing music – and live especially – and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

We’ll show the fire how to burn.

I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a distinct understanding of their actions. In that buying an album they are helping the artist to continue making music. It’s hard because everyone wants something to be free.

If I wasn’t a musician… I think I’d just be endlessly traveling.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

I’ve been worryin’ that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

The best thing is I can say ‘I’m working’ when I’m having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.

The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.

Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won’t get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu

If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.