A Virtue Never Tested Is No Virtue

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

That's What I'm About -- Getting Engaged. Too Many People Don't Wade In The Mud With The Politicians.

Mixing Pop And Politics He Asks Me What The Use Is / I Offer Him Embarrassment And My Usual Excuses.

We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Defame Other People's Religion. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Try To Blow Up Our Citizens. We Have Due Process. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who We Capture During Combat And War, But Somehow Guantanamo Bay Seems To Be Outside All That. And Perhaps It's Being Maintained With The View To What People Are Talking About Now, This Idea Of The "long War," That This Is Going To Go On And On, And Perhaps Iran Is Going To Be Next.

I Don't Mind Being Labeled As A Political Songwriter. I've Chosen To Do That. What Really Annoys Me Is Being Dismissed As A Political Songwriter. That Really Pains Me, Because Life Isn't All About Love; It's Not All About Politics, Either. It's A Beautiful Mixture Of Events That Absolutely Baffle You, And You Think, "why Can't I Do Something About That?", Whether Those Events Are In Your Bedroom, Or Out There In The Wide World. In Our Daily Lives We Engage With Them At Different Times, And I'm Trying To Write About The Whole Human Experience, Or My Perspective On It Anyway.