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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.

The Most Powerful Music Is Music With Purpose.

I Think You Might Be Considered A Terrorist For Asking The Question! It Can Be So Broadly Defined Now. And The Thing Is, You’re Not Privy To Those Decisions. Anyone Who Expresses Any Opinion Can Be Considered A Terrorist.

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.

Amazingly Talented Singer Who Sang Like An Angry Angel