My Music Is Made For The People

In America, We Have Freedom Of Choice. But Some Are Free To Choose Between Lamborghini And Rolls Royce While Others Are Free To Choose Which Dumpster They're Going To Have Their Meal Out Of Next. Some Are Free To Choose Which, You Know, Homes And Farms To Foreclosed On, While Others Choose Which Bridge They're Going To Sleep Under Tonight.

If You Want To Change The World Right Now, It’s Not So Much A Secret How You Do It. You Put The Secrets Of A Criminal Government On The Internet.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

I Find It Ironic That Now Water Is More Expensive Than Music. On The One Hand, Record Companies Can't Go Crying When They've Gouged Consumers For Decades, Charging Exorbitant Prices For Cds That Cost 29 Cents To Make. On The Other Hand, When Music Is Free, Musicians Starve.

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...