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I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.