Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.