The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.