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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.

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.

In Our Country There's Never Been A Successful Progressive Struggle That Did Not Have A Soundtrack, Whether It Was The Civil Rights Movement, Workers' Rights Movement, Women's Rights Movement. There's Got To Be Songs At The Barricades, And Those Are The Kinds Of Songs That I Try To Write.

In America, We Have Freedom Of Choice. But Some Are Free To Choose Between Lamborghini And Rolls Royce While Others Are Free To Choose Which Dumpster They're Going To Have Their Meal Out Of Next. Some Are Free To Choose Which, You Know, Homes And Farms To Foreclosed On, While Others Choose Which Bridge They're Going To Sleep Under Tonight.

Being A Musician Is A Given For Me-i Didn't Have Much Choice In The Matter.