Jack Johnson has come to be known for his ultra-laidback demeanor and folksy surf-pop songs to match. He's shaped his career around projecting positive vibes for his audience and calling them into his own life as well. It doesn't hurt that he's been on this multi-decade journey with some of his closest friends in tow. “I think life's too important to spend time with people that you don't consider friends,” he recently told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. From his guitar tech, who lives down the street from him in Hawaii, to his front-of-house engineer, who was around when the band couldn't even fill up a room, Johnson is particular about who he allows into his creative space. “It's just in my life, I just always never wanted to feel like I was wasting time with people I didn't want to be around, so I've been really lucky like that. It's just always my wife and my best friend and my managers.” On a new episode of The Zane Lowe Show, the singer-songwriter discusses how he's assembled this cast of beloved characters in his life, including a new friendship he made with Blake Mills, the musician and producer he worked closely with on his upcoming album Meet the Moonlight. Beyond keeping close relationships, Johnson chalks up much of his success to luck. “I'm not trying to say I don't have confidence in the songwriting and the songs and what my band does. We practice really hard and we're very into it and we love it,” he explains. “But I have so many friends that have so many talented friends with bands and stuff, and it doesn't always line up where the luck thing happens.” He cites his very first tour with Ben Harper and how even that was a chance happening that ultimately jump-started his professional life. “JP Plunier, his manager at the time, just happened to walk into the place we were editing the surf movie, and that conversation began and he produced the record. So many little things I look back like, 'Whoa, if that one conversation never happened, none of this would've.'”