How can being a musician be incorporated into helping take care of our planet?

Well, I think because you have a position of being a well known person in the public's eye, you have a chance to be heard by a lot of people. I've had a lot of opportunities to talk at different high schools and things, and I've always had a chance, to for instance, talk about my Africa trip and the plight of the people there, and that those children just want to go to school; they don't want food. The first thing you ask them is to go to school. Children here wouldn't be apt to say that; they're want candy or to go to a movie or something. A lot of musicians write a lot of wonderful songs about their experiences where they've been, and what they've seen and what they've heard, and I think musicians have historically always been story tellers. You know, they travel around like travelling minstrels used to. I think musicians still play that part in society; I think music can be so inspirational and so uplifting. To be able to know about someone else's sorrow; that sort of eases your own. Or to know that it's just not so bad. Like when I was a teenager, I'd play a song for hours; the same song. It drove my mother crazy; she used to pound on the kitchen floor with her foot [and say], "Can you play another song for Pete's sake?" Who's Pete? But it's a universal language. You don't have to be able to speak English. I can listen to a beautiful French song or African song; those children sang to me there, and it just sent chills all over my body. Those little children, and they made such different noises with their singing voices. It was like, "Wow, how do they do that!". They would laugh and giggle incessantly at my singing because they weren't used to that style, you know with my guitar and kind of being melodic, and they probably thought it was really sappy. The just laughed away. They made me cry; I know it was a happy song that they were singing, but I didn't have to understand the words; I knew what they were singing.