Tantra is for the person who has gone beyond the rules. They've learned the rules so well that now they can go beyond them.
I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.
That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.
Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.
When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.
I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.
If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [911], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.
Young people are still looking and older people have found.