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Poverty Is Not An Accident Of, Sort Of, An Economic Spreadsheet. Poverty Is A Crime. There Are Criminals Involved. And Those Criminals Walk The Streets As Free Men. What My Music Is About, And What - This From The Riots In The Streets Of Greece And Spain To The People's Uprisings In Egypt And Libya And Madison Is About Is Holding Those People Accountable, Those Who Are Responsible For Subverting The Entire Global Economy And Causing So Much Misery And Then Laughing About It With Their, You Know, Clinking Their Champagne Glasses On Their Yachts.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

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.

For The Millennium [new Year's Eve], You Really Have A Choice To Make. You Either Have To Be Naked With Your Head On Fire And A Shotgun In Bali Or Else You Have To Spend Time With Friends Or Family Around The Fireplace. And I'm Choosing Option B

My Take Is That There's Two Ways To Approach History. You Sit In Your Armchair And You Watch It On The News And You Return To Your Playstation. Or You Get Out In The Streets And You Make It. Like, When Those Supreme Court Justices, You Know, Legalize Desegregation, It Wasn't Due To Their Infinite Wisdom. It's Because People Whose Names You Do Not Read About In History Books, People Whose Faces You Will Never See, Were The Ones Who Struggled And Sacrificed, Sometimes Gave Their Lives, To Make This Country A More Equal One. When, It's Like Those People Don't Make History, It's Us.