You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.