I Try And Write Honestly About What

All The Great Political Music Was Made At The Height Of Political Confrontations.

So, In Some Ways, The Political Songs Tend To Be A Bit More Like Reportage, Whereas The Love Songs Tend To Be Like Novels, You Can Pick Them Up Off The Shelf And Go Into Them Any Time.

We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Defame Other People's Religion. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Try To Blow Up Our Citizens. We Have Due Process. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who We Capture During Combat And War, But Somehow Guantanamo Bay Seems To Be Outside All That. And Perhaps It's Being Maintained With The View To What People Are Talking About Now, This Idea Of The "long War," That This Is Going To Go On And On, And Perhaps Iran Is Going To Be Next.

War What Is It Good For? It's Good For Business.

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.