Being A Musician Is A Given For

Paul Ryan's Love For Rage Against The Machine Is Amusing, Because He Is The Embodiment Of The Machine That Our Music Has Been Raging Against For Two Decades

Poverty Is Not An Accident Of, Sort Of, An Economic Spreadsheet. Poverty Is A Crime. There Are Criminals Involved. And Those Criminals Walk The Streets As Free Men. What My Music Is About, And What - This From The Riots In The Streets Of Greece And Spain To The People's Uprisings In Egypt And Libya And Madison Is About Is Holding Those People Accountable, Those Who Are Responsible For Subverting The Entire Global Economy And Causing So Much Misery And Then Laughing About It With Their, You Know, Clinking Their Champagne Glasses On Their Yachts.

Music, I Think, Is Best When It Honestly Explores Personal Demons, And It Stirs Around In The Silt Of The Psyche To Find Out What's Really There.

We Have Power Not Just With Our Voices, But We Have Economic Power In What We Do For A Living, Too.

There's A Lot Of Injustice In The World And It's What I Sing About In My Music And What I Try To Confront In My Life As An Activist.