The Problem Is Not Cop Killers...it's Killer

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.

I Think That New Artistic Challenges Help You Grow Both As A Person, As An Artist, And Then They Feed Back Into Your Other Work, And Tend To Magnify It.

Music, I Think, Is Best When It Honestly Explores Personal Demons, And It Stirs Around In The Silt Of The Psyche To Find Out What's Really There.

What Is Poverty, If Not Violence. Like, The Number Of People Who Die Every Year From Starvation And From Hunger And Poverty Is In The Tens Of Millions.