I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan

There Are Literally Billions Of People On The Planet Who Live In An Unimaginable Poverty That's Not In Any Way Different From The Plight Of The People In Orchid. And You Can't Have The Splendor Of Rodeo Drive Without The Sweatshops Of Indonesia; Those Two Things Go Hand In Hand.

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.

There Are Many Fans Of Hard Rock Music That Have Been Wrongly Pigeonholed As Apathetic. This Music Is Not Music For The Elitist Coffeehouse Culture In Soho. It' S Rock 'n' Roll Music For Kids Across The Land, And I Think That Makes It Much More Subversive In A Way, In That It Has The Form And The Function Of A Powerful, Populist Music, But It Can Carry Very Incendiary Messages.

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.

The Reason Why Many Young People In The Vietnam War Era Were Active Was Their Lives Were Threatened By The Draft And They Were Going To Perhaps Be Forced To Go Overseas And Fight In An Immoral War.