I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.

You have come a long way and have won many battles. Whenever you’re faced with a difficult or challenging situation, you’ll overcome it. Yes, you can.

Don’t complain. Find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.