Always Question The Authority.

There's A Unique Component Of Music That Is Different From, The Written Pamphlet Or A Speech. There's Something, When You Get The Right Combination Of Rhythm, Melody And The Right Lyrical Couplet, That Feels Like Truth In The Reptilian Brain. There's Something Hardwired In Our D.n.a.. And When You Get A Large Group Of People Singing Together In Solidarity, It's Something That, In My Experience, And I've Played Countless Demonstrations And Protests Through The Years, It's Something That Can Really Help A Struggle.

I Don't Want To Leave This Mess Around My Children To Clean Up. I Want To Swing Absolutely As Hard As I Can To Straighten Things Out Before They Get To The Age Where It Starts Hurting Them.

Every Story Has A Point Of View And Whether It's By What One Chooses To Include Or Exclude From A Story Or Whether It's A Very Specific Agenda That Is Pushed, There Is No Such Thing As Objective Media. Once You Realize That It's More Than Just A Marketplace Of Ideas, It's A Battleground Of Ideas That Are Suppressed And The Ideas That Are Pushed Forward In The Mainstream Media Are The Ones That Independent Media Has A Chance To Address. I Think That The Democratization Of Media In That Way Can Be Very Helpful In Allowing The Truth To Come Out In A Way That It Might Not On Cnn Or Fox.

Whenever I Set Out In A New Direction, Whether It's With A New Band Or Being A Frontman Or Writing A Comic Book Or Entering Into Movie Scoring Or Anything Like That, I Wouldn’t Say That I Do It Fearlessly...

When Real Substantive Change Happens It's The People Who Watch Your Show, They're The Ones That Make It Happen. It's People Whose Names Are Not Highlighted In History Books. They're The Ones That Stand Up In Their Place And Time To Make Change.