My Parents Met In Kenya.

I Don't Believe That The Democratic Party Has Anything To Do With The Left. We Have Two Political Parties In The Us: A Right Wing Party And A Right Centrist Party. That's The Democrats. I Laugh When People Describe Barack Obama As A Socialist President. As A Socialist Musician, I'll Tell You When We Have A Socialist President. We Don't Have One Now, Not Even Close.

Things Like Rebellion And Resistance To Authority Are Absolutely As Much A Part Of The Human Experience As Love And Cars Are, And It's A Part That Doesn't Get Covered Very Much In Pop Music.

Every Story Has A Point Of View And Whether It's By What One Chooses To Include Or Exclude From A Story Or Whether It's A Very Specific Agenda That Is Pushed, There Is No Such Thing As Objective Media. Once You Realize That It's More Than Just A Marketplace Of Ideas, It's A Battleground Of Ideas That Are Suppressed And The Ideas That Are Pushed Forward In The Mainstream Media Are The Ones That Independent Media Has A Chance To Address. I Think That The Democratization Of Media In That Way Can Be Very Helpful In Allowing The Truth To Come Out In A Way That It Might Not On Cnn Or Fox.

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.

We Have Power Not Just With Our Voices, But We Have Economic Power In What We Do For A Living, Too.