Being A Musician Is A Given For

There's A Unique Component Of Music That Is Different From, The Written Pamphlet Or A Speech. There's Something, When You Get The Right Combination Of Rhythm, Melody And The Right Lyrical Couplet, That Feels Like Truth In The Reptilian Brain. There's Something Hardwired In Our D.n.a.. And When You Get A Large Group Of People Singing Together In Solidarity, It's Something That, In My Experience, And I've Played Countless Demonstrations And Protests Through The Years, It's Something That Can Really Help A Struggle.

Tonight, It's The Rock And Roll All Night And Party Every Day Hall Of Fame.

I Don't Believe That The Democratic Party Has Anything To Do With The Left. We Have Two Political Parties In The Us: A Right Wing Party And A Right Centrist Party. That's The Democrats. I Laugh When People Describe Barack Obama As A Socialist President. As A Socialist Musician, I'll Tell You When We Have A Socialist President. We Don't Have One Now, Not Even Close.

The Way Corporate Media Likes To Portray America Is As A Homogenous Whole That High-five's Each Other At The Super Bowl. But What We Have Is A Grotesque Disparity Between The Rich And Poor That Is Only Getting Wider.

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.