Music, I Think, Is Best When It

A Good Song Should Make You Wanna Tap Your Foot And Get With Your Girl. A Great Song Should Destroy Cops And Set Fire To The Suburbs. I'm Only Interested In Writing Great Songs.

I Think It's Crucially Important To Be Present In The Lives Of Your Children. They Are My Most Important Cause That I Fight For. But I Also Feel An Added Responsibility That I Want To Leave Them A Better World Than This One That We Have Now.

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.

When I Am Most Successful As A Guitar Player Is When I'm Able To Just Sort Of Lose Myself. You Stop Thinking About Technique Or Anything Like That And Just Trying To Evoke The Emotion Of That Song Brings, Which Is A Very Strong Emotion For Me.

I Didn't Abandon My Studies. Because I Was, Through No - Clarify This. Through No Particular Genius Of My Own, I Was The First Person From Libertyville Public High School To Attend Harvard, Not Because I Was Smarter Than Anyone Or Better Than Anyone, But No One Had Ever Applied Before. It Was Like University Of Illinois, A Fine Institution, Was The Sort Of The Upper Echelon Of Places Where Kids Went From That School. And So I Felt Sort Of A Duty To Myself And My Peers To Continue With Those Studies, And To Continue To, Intellectually Arm Myself For My Coming Struggles.