My Music Is Made For The People

I've Always Been On A Personal Mission To Save The Guitar.

Paul Ryan's Love For Rage Against The Machine Is Amusing, Because He Is The Embodiment Of The Machine That Our Music Has Been Raging Against For Two Decades

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

Every Story Has A Point Of View And Whether It's By What One Chooses To Include Or Exclude From A Story Or Whether It's A Very Specific Agenda That Is Pushed, There Is No Such Thing As Objective Media. Once You Realize That It's More Than Just A Marketplace Of Ideas, It's A Battleground Of Ideas That Are Suppressed And The Ideas That Are Pushed Forward In The Mainstream Media Are The Ones That Independent Media Has A Chance To Address. I Think That The Democratization Of Media In That Way Can Be Very Helpful In Allowing The Truth To Come Out In A Way That It Might Not On Cnn Or Fox.

Whenever I Set Out In A New Direction, Whether It's With A New Band Or Being A Frontman Or Writing A Comic Book Or Entering Into Movie Scoring Or Anything Like That, I Wouldn’t Say That I Do It Fearlessly...