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Things Like Rebellion And Resistance To Authority Are Absolutely As Much A Part Of The Human Experience As Love And Cars Are, And It's A Part That Doesn't Get Covered Very Much In Pop Music.

Poverty Is Not An Accident Of, Sort Of, An Economic Spreadsheet. Poverty Is A Crime. There Are Criminals Involved. And Those Criminals Walk The Streets As Free Men. What My Music Is About, And What - This From The Riots In The Streets Of Greece And Spain To The People's Uprisings In Egypt And Libya And Madison Is About Is Holding Those People Accountable, Those Who Are Responsible For Subverting The Entire Global Economy And Causing So Much Misery And Then Laughing About It With Their, You Know, Clinking Their Champagne Glasses On Their Yachts.

Well, I Don't Care For Paul Ryan's Sound Or His Lyrics. He Can Like Whatever Bands He Wants, But His Guiding Vision Of Shifting Revenue More Radically To The One Percent Is Antithetical To The Message Of Rage.

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.

You Can Kiss My Kiss-loving Ass Because Kiss Was Never A Critic's Band. It Was A People's Band.