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The Invitation For Artists To Compete To See Who Can Be The Most Charitable Is A Wonderful Thing.

We All Grow Up With Anger. It's Part Of The Human Condition. But What Do You Do With That? It Seems Obvious To Me That You've Got To Use It For Something, But You Have To Separate It From Your Ego.

My Overall Responsibility Is To Be Truthful. If People Pay Money To Come And See Me, Looking For Something Other Than That, Then They've Made A Mistake.

Politics Is A Part Of Life And Art Is About Life. It Doesn't Mean That All The Art Has To Be About Politics - In Fact, Heaven Forbid. But Politics Is A Totally Legitimate Area Of Focus For Any Art, Whether It's Painting Or Songwriting Or Anything Else, As Much As Sex Is, As Much As Spirituality Is, As Much As Any Other Behavior Of People Is.

I Did A Lot Of Writing For A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Bands That I Was In And Out Of During Those Five Years And That Left Me With A Little Body Of Songs That I Liked Better When I Played Alone, So I Ended Up Going Out Solo And Very Soon Made My First Album.