You Can Be Active With The Activists

I Enjoyed So Much Working With The Guys From Wilco, And Riffing Off Of Them, And Having Someone Come Up To Me With Ideas, Because Normally In The Studio It's Me Who Has To Come Up With All The Ideas.

The Idea That Musicians Should Be Talking About Politics Is, In Some Ways, Quite A Sixties' Idea. Music No Longer Has A Vanguard Role In Youth Culture.

So, In Some Ways, The Political Songs Tend To Be A Bit More Like Reportage, Whereas The Love Songs Tend To Be Like Novels, You Can Pick Them Up Off The Shelf And Go Into Them Any Time.

You Can Experience A Download, But You Can't Download An Experience.

Whether We Like It Or Not, We Live In A Post-ideological World. That's How A Donald Trump Can Get Through. He Has No Ideology At All: In That Sense, He's A Bit Like Mussolini. I Think That Ultimately Trump Will Lose The Election And In The Process Destroy The Republican Party - But Then I'm An Optimist, Ha Ha Ha! So He Might Not Lose. He Might Be In Charge Of The Largest Nuclear Arsenal In The World!