Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.