We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.
I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
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.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.