Freedom is an endless meeting.
I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.
I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is a bit hilarious because I'm leading the band and writing the songs, but I'm surrounded by such overwhelmingly competent musicians.
You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
When people all wear the same thing, people notice. They aren't stupid. People don't go, "Oh, you can see right through them!"
I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.
Cities like Portland, Seattle, and Long Beach, which have made these investments in their infrastructure, are seeing not only health advantages, but also a lot more exchange in the community, which leads to better policy-making and stronger communities.
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight. " And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees. " And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.
The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.