A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

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