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My Parents Met In Kenya. My Father Is African, Is Kenyan. The Kenyan Side Of My Family Was Involved In The Anticolonial Movement.

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.

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...

A Musicians Or Artists Responsibility Is A Simple One, And That Is, Through Your Music To Tell The Truth.

What Draws People To The Instrument Is The Love For Guitar Players That Play A Certain Way. I Mean, Even Though It Wasn't Intentional, It Was Hard To Avoid Copying Eddie Van Halen. He Was Basically The *bleep* Back Then.