The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue?
We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.
CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.
The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.
We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.
I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.