One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].