 Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. |
| If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. |
| I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. |
| I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. |
| My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. |
| And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. |
| We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. |
| One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. |
| My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. |
| Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. |
| I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. |
| The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. |
| Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. |
| Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. |
| So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. |
| I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame. |
| At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. |
| This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped. |
| You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time! |
| We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record. |
