An Isolationist America Is No Bloody Use

Whether We Like It Or Not, We Live In A Post-ideological World. That's How A Donald Trump Can Get Through. He Has No Ideology At All: In That Sense, He's A Bit Like Mussolini. I Think That Ultimately Trump Will Lose The Election And In The Process Destroy The Republican Party - But Then I'm An Optimist, Ha Ha Ha! So He Might Not Lose. He Might Be In Charge Of The Largest Nuclear Arsenal In The World!

The Idea That Musicians Should Be Talking About Politics Is, In Some Ways, Quite A Sixties' Idea. Music No Longer Has A Vanguard Role In Youth Culture.

We've Heard So Much About The American Dream: Well, Trump Is The American Nightmare Made Flesh. All The Things About 'the Ugly American' That We Worry About And Which The Americans See In Themselves, It's All Of That. This Is A Politics Of Egotistical Display.

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.

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.