I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.