When You Wanna Rock Hard, Children, Lean

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.

America Touts Itself As The Land Of The Free, But The Number One Freedom That You And I Have Is The Freedom To Enter Into A Subservient Role In The Workplace. Once You Exercise This Freedom You’ve Lost All Control Over What You Do, What Is Produced, And How It Is Produced. And In The End, The Product Doesn’t Belong To You. The Only Way You Can Avoid Bosses And Jobs Is If You Don’t Care About Making A Living. Which Leads To The Second Freedom: The Freedom To Starve.

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

What Is Poverty, If Not Violence. Like, The Number Of People Who Die Every Year From Starvation And From Hunger And Poverty Is In The Tens Of Millions.

There's A Lot Of Injustice In The World And It's What I Sing About In My Music And What I Try To Confront In My Life As An Activist.