Occupation: Guitarist Birth: May 30, 1964
Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a p….
If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Hale….
Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two ….
America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the w….
Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it..
My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves..
The most powerful music is music with purpose..
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there..
There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist..
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 c….
I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in a lower middle class family, but a family that….
My take is that there's two ways to approach history. You sit in your armchair and you watch it on the news and you return to your PlayStation. Or yo….
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late....
A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to the suburbs. I'm only intere….
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth..
I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar..
Always question the authority..
I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get ….
In my own way, I was a rebellious kid..
The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops..
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#..