The World Brought Me To

I Don't Mind Payin' For The Police And For Streets And Sanitation, Or Road Work, Bridges, Trains, Food Subsidies And Welfare. But I Don't Wanna Pay For Bombs To Fight Proxy Wars In The Middle Of Nowhere Against Enemies In The Night.

With Australian Audiences, There's A Certain Level Of Education - As Far As How Much Access And Exposure They Have To Music From Various Genres. So When You Do 'big Day Out' And There Are All These Different Musical Acts, You See The Same People In Your Crowd That Were There For A Completely Different Artist.

My Mother And My Father Taught Me To Look At The Actual Problem, Not The Face Of It, Not The Veneer Of It. So For Me, I Was Never - I Was Impressed That It - Racially, I Was Impressed, Right, But Now In America It's About Economics, And It's Been About Economics, And Honestly, Everything's Been About Economics Since I Don't Want To Say The Beginning Of Time, But It's Been About Economics For A Long While.

It's A Funny Line When You're Walking - The Creativity, The Subjectivity Versus The Objectivity, Creativity Versus The Business, And Recognizing That You Are In The Music Business, So There Are Certain Things That You Have To Acquiesce To On The Business Side And Certain Creative Decisions That You Have To Make For The Purposes Of Serving The Business Side Of It.

Making Your Moves, Paying Your Dues, Chasing The Cool.