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…

- Tom Morello

Always question the authority.

- Tom Morello

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 …

- Tom Morello

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.

- Tom Morello

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…

- Tom Morello

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

- Tom Morello

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…

- Tom Morello

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…

- Tom Morello

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.

- Tom Morello