When You Wanna Rock Hard, Children, Lean

For The Millennium [new Year's Eve], You Really Have A Choice To Make. You Either Have To Be Naked With Your Head On Fire And A Shotgun In Bali Or Else You Have To Spend Time With Friends Or Family Around The Fireplace. And I'm Choosing Option B

There Are Literally Billions Of People On The Planet Who Live In An Unimaginable Poverty That's Not In Any Way Different From The Plight Of The People In Orchid. And You Can't Have The Splendor Of Rodeo Drive Without The Sweatshops Of Indonesia; Those Two Things Go Hand In Hand.

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.

A Good Song Should Make You Wanna Tap Your Foot And Get With Your Girl. A Great Song Should Destroy Cops And Set Fire To The Suburbs. I'm Only Interested In Writing Great Songs.

I Think I Was Meant To Be A Musician Who Speaks His Mind About Social Justice Issues. And I Grew Up In A Lower Middle Class Family, But A Family That Had Enough Money To Buy A $50 Guitar And A $50 Amplifier, And Had A Basement To Rehearse In. What I Think The Global Human Cost Of This Horrific Poverty Is How Many Mozarts Or Curers Of Cancer Are Slaving Away In The Maquiladoras Along The Tijuana Border, Or In The Indonesian Sweat Shops? There Are Billions Of People Who Will Never Become The People They Could Be, Or The People They Were Meant To Be, Due To Crushing Poverty.