In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

Trump's ignorance in environmental science is a threat to the entire planet.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.