I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.