When you go away for a month on tour, there's only so much information you can take in. You're traveling city by city every day. I think five of the 30 days you actually keep with you and the rest becomes mush. And when you get back you're really mushy.

A backyard for me is more being with the people around you, your friends. I think that's what defines your home not your actual, physical home. When you travel a lot, what makes you feel at home is when your friends whom you know really well are there, your girlfriend.

Everybody always wants to meet musicians. You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, I'm a musician, and they'll have something to say to you. It's kind of this weird passport where you can go around and as soon as you say you're a musician, you're welcome.

I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, I'm gonna be a rock star, or I'm gonna be in a band. It was more I just play piano, and I'm always going to play piano. That's who I am and that's cool. I think music became so ingrained in me that it was not even my choice.

I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the most intimate. There's nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together.

Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins.

A lot of loud people have been talking over the years they have these huge voices but don't say much. I'm sure there are a lot of really quiet people who have a lot more intelligent things to say than the loud people.