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I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

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The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.

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I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

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I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn't going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.

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I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

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My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

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A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

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I'm not a classically trained composer, and I can't sing very well.

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I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.

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I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 1st, 1971

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