Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.