If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

If 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.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

The most powerful music is music with purpose.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

I came late to the genre of folk music.