All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to see messages that support Ayn Randian individualism at the cost of the whole, because most people don't agree with that.

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.