Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.