Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didnโt understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesnโt understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Tom MorelloIf aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.
Tom MorelloPoverty is curable, but itโs just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
Tom MorelloPoverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.
Tom Morello