A Patriot Is Someone Who Cares What

At Some Point In Your Life You Have To Engage With The Fact That You Are Part Of A Society. Yeah The Individual Is The Most Important Facet In Society But Unless Every Individual Is The Recipient Of Free Health Care, Free Education Decent Affordable Housing And A Proper Pension Then Only The Rich And Powerful Will Be Individuals And The Rest Of Us Will Be Exploited By Them.

All The Great Political Music Was Made At The Height Of Political Confrontations.

Even With Politics, Stuff Comes Around Again. Woody Guthrie Would Recognize America Today.

I Enjoyed So Much Working With The Guys From Wilco, And Riffing Off Of Them, And Having Someone Come Up To Me With Ideas, Because Normally In The Studio It's Me Who Has To Come Up With All The Ideas.

I've Had Songs Written During The Falklands War, And During The First Gulf War I Got Letters From Soldiers Saying They Were Listening To These Songs, Like Island Of No Return.