DX: Where did you get the idea to put soybean oil in your gas tank?
TG: I was at an Earth Day festival in San Diego and I saw these guys who were running these old Mercedes on vegetable oil. I was pretty amazed and I started talking to them about it. They told me they recycle waste oil from restaurants and that they run their cars on it and I just thought it was the coolest idea. And I was like I really want to do that but I don’t want an old Mercedes. I actually had an SUV at the time and I wanted to get a new car but I used it [the SUV] so much; I would always fill it up with gear and merchandise and everything…so I couldn’t get anything smaller. I did some research and found out that you can convert any diesel vehicle. So I ended up getting this big truck ‘cause it was a diesel and I did conversion on it at a place called Lovecraft Biofuels in Los Angeles. I’ve done a couple tours around the country, I did one full tour on vegetable oil all the way around the country, even as far as New York. Eventually I’d like to get an electrical car because now they say that even some of the biofuels are making them chop down the rainforest and plant soy and stuff like that. So it’s like nothing is perfect at this point as far as running a vehicle except maybe electric. But there’s so much stuff that people should concentrate on, it’s not just the cars.

DX: What else?
TG: On my next release I’m gonna do more eco-friendly packaging and recycle plastic CDs I guess. Eventually CDs will get phased out and that will be a good thing hopefully. Just as far as not trying to buy too much plastic over and over again; for instance, plastic water bottles. Try to just either use one water bottle if you’re gonna use plastic bottles or buy a metal bottle […] I think I bought my daughter a plastic sandbox today and I should have bought a wooden one...

DX: [Laughing] is she interested in music?
TG: Oh she loves music.

DX: Does she have any instruments?
TG: I bought her some small Conga drums. And she has like…I don’t know, she plays my instruments to tell you the truth. She’ll just go on the piano and everything and she hits the big drums. She just loves listening to music also. I’m gonna put her in piano lessons pretty soon. As for now, she’s just listening to a lot of music and playing around on the instruments that we have around here.

DX: Have you been following the election campaign?
TG: I did for a minute. We went to an Obama rally and we watched a lot of the early stuff where they were competing for the democratic candidate on TV and stuff, but to tell you the truth, I kind of lost track because I feel that it’s just taking so long and they’re going back and forth and just insulting each other at this point. To me, it doesn’t look that great. You still gotta remember that there are republicans waiting in the wings to battle at the next stage of the game. I wish they would figure something out with who’s gonna be the democratic candidate and make it so they’re not tearing each other apart as the rest of the sees their weaknesses.

DX: Any predictions?
TG: I couldn’t tell you. I hope Obama wins, but I don’t know. How can you make a prediction when the president that’s in office now got there by cheating?