Because Life Is Short But Sweet For

Because One Of The Properties Of Music Is To Entertain And To, I Don't Mean This Lightly, Distract Us From The Things That Pull Us Down. Music Should Be Not Only A Source For Political Ideas But Also A Source Of Hope.

Lying On The Roof Counting The Stars That Fill The Sky I Wonder If Someone In The Heavens Looking Back Down On Me I'll Never Know So Much Space To Believe

So Often We Talk About Saving The Planet, But What We Really Mean Is To Save The Planet The Way It Is, So We Can Live Here. So That Is Can Sustain Us. Because The Planet Doesn't Need To Be Saved. It Doesn't Care If All The Squirrels, Elephants, And Trees Die And There's Just A Couple Of Amoebas Floating Around At The Poles.

I Fear That Our True Motivation Is About Oil And Our Own Flailing Economy; About The Failure To Destroy Al Qaeda And About Revenge.

It Is Criminal To Put Our Servicemen And Women In Harm's Way And To Put The Lives Of So Many Civilians On The Line For The Misguided Frustrations Of The Bush Administration.