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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.