My Parents Met In Kenya.

Music, I Think, Is Best When It Honestly Explores Personal Demons, And It Stirs Around In The Silt Of The Psyche To Find Out What's Really There.

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.

Then About 12 Years Ago It Dawned On Me That Folk Music - The Music Of Woody Guthrie And Phil Ochs, Early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - Could Be As Heavy As Anything That Comes Through A Marshall Stack. The Combination Of Three Chords And The Right Lyrical Couplet Can Be As Heavy As Anything In The Metallica Catalogue.

Poverty Is Curable, But It’s Just Not Done, Because It's Not Profitable. And That Is The Kind Of Violence That's Perpetuated On Humanity.

In America, We Have Freedom Of Choice. But Some Are Free To Choose Between Lamborghini And Rolls Royce While Others Are Free To Choose Which Dumpster They're Going To Have Their Meal Out Of Next. Some Are Free To Choose Which, You Know, Homes And Farms To Foreclosed On, While Others Choose Which Bridge They're Going To Sleep Under Tonight.