My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind of oppression, even self-oppression. I consider that the main job of the art that I do- to rattle the cage, wake people up, wake myself up, confront all that would conspire to keep us down.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?