What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
You can choose to live in love or choose to live in fear.
People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed for public consumption.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life.
I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.
Love is the substance of human survival.
I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.
I love the exhilaration of feeling a pull quote come out of your mouth. The words just taste better.
I play sad bastard music. For the money.
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
