There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

That's why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that's what it does to me. So as a musician, I'm just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But when someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.