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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.

I Didn't Abandon My Studies. Because I Was, Through No - Clarify This. Through No Particular Genius Of My Own, I Was The First Person From Libertyville Public High School To Attend Harvard, Not Because I Was Smarter Than Anyone Or Better Than Anyone, But No One Had Ever Applied Before. It Was Like University Of Illinois, A Fine Institution, Was The Sort Of The Upper Echelon Of Places Where Kids Went From That School. And So I Felt Sort Of A Duty To Myself And My Peers To Continue With Those Studies, And To Continue To, Intellectually Arm Myself For My Coming Struggles.

Of Course, Music Is An Art Form, And It's Not All That Competitive. But We Don't Ever Intend To Be The Second-best Band On A Stage At Any Show.

Every Story Has A Point Of View And Whether It's By What One Chooses To Include Or Exclude From A Story Or Whether It's A Very Specific Agenda That Is Pushed, There Is No Such Thing As Objective Media. Once You Realize That It's More Than Just A Marketplace Of Ideas, It's A Battleground Of Ideas That Are Suppressed And The Ideas That Are Pushed Forward In The Mainstream Media Are The Ones That Independent Media Has A Chance To Address. I Think That The Democratization Of Media In That Way Can Be Very Helpful In Allowing The Truth To Come Out In A Way That It Might Not On Cnn Or Fox.

In A World Of Bands Called Limp Bizkit And Hoobastank, Electric Sheep Rolls Off The Tongue Like A Shakespearean Love Sonnet. Leave Me Alone.