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If Aliens Came Down And Challenged Us To A Battle Of The Bands To Decide The Fate Of Planet Earth, I Would Feel Very Confident Putting Early Van Halen Forward As Our Champion.

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.

Things Like Rebellion And Resistance To Authority Are Absolutely As Much A Part Of The Human Experience As Love And Cars Are, And It's A Part That Doesn't Get Covered Very Much In Pop Music.

We Have Power Not Just With Our Voices, But We Have Economic Power In What We Do For A Living, Too.

I Don't Want To Leave This Mess Around My Children To Clean Up. I Want To Swing Absolutely As Hard As I Can To Straighten Things Out Before They Get To The Age Where It Starts Hurting Them.