“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.”
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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
I think politics come out of psychology.
