With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

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

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.