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I Enjoyed So Much Working With The Guys From Wilco, And Riffing Off Of Them, And Having Someone Come Up To Me With Ideas, Because Normally In The Studio It's Me Who Has To Come Up With All The Ideas.

What Corporations Fear Most Are Consumers Who Ask Questions. Naomi Klein Offers Us The Arguments With Which To Take On The Superbrands.

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.

I Don't Mind Being Labeled As A Political Songwriter. I've Chosen To Do That. What Really Annoys Me Is Being Dismissed As A Political Songwriter. That Really Pains Me, Because Life Isn't All About Love; It's Not All About Politics, Either. It's A Beautiful Mixture Of Events That Absolutely Baffle You, And You Think, "why Can't I Do Something About That?", Whether Those Events Are In Your Bedroom, Or Out There In The Wide World. In Our Daily Lives We Engage With Them At Different Times, And I'm Trying To Write About The Whole Human Experience, Or My Perspective On It Anyway.

I've Had Songs Written During The Falklands War, And During The First Gulf War I Got Letters From Soldiers Saying They Were Listening To These Songs, Like Island Of No Return.