“Basically you’re performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi.”

Let’s show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.

I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with ’em.

I’ve been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it’s rare.

So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it’s a constant battle. It’s an exciting opportunity to be active.

I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

So I always look for a way to communicate ideas and help to spread excitement for change.

And when you perform and create this story, they’re chuffed – they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

I think you can find a lot of joy and inspiration through food.

Words just aren’t necessary a good enough opportunity to express.

As great as technology is, it still has it’s limitations, because it’s only a frame of the truth.

Find a partner, commit to taking action, and hold each other accountable.

We must humble ourselves and commit to routine and collective actions.

I really do believe that in order to overcome our environmental shortcomings.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive.

It’s sort of a combination between that and having the foundation that my mother gave me.

So I feel like I’m really lucky to be alive in a time where there’s so much opportunity to disrupt and shake it up.

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

This is why suicide is the a great wrong because by suicide you’re basically declaring, ‘Oh Allah this is too much, I can’t take it anymore!

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn’t abide her, basically.

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

My mom used to tell me, I can’t use this phrase on the radio – but basically don’t be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.