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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

America Touts Itself As The Land Of The Free, But The Number One Freedom That You And I Have Is The Freedom To Enter Into A Subservient Role In The Workplace. Once You Exercise This Freedom You’ve Lost All Control Over What You Do, What Is Produced, And How It Is Produced. And In The End, The Product Doesn’t Belong To You. The Only Way You Can Avoid Bosses And Jobs Is If You Don’t Care About Making A Living. Which Leads To The Second Freedom: The Freedom To Starve.

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.

The Most Powerful Music Is Music With Purpose.

The Real Estate Agent Had To Go Door-to-door In The Apartment Building We Wanted To Rent, Asking If It Was Ok For This Interracial Family - My Mom Is White And I Was A 1-year-old Half-african Kid - To Live In The Apartment Building.