“I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.”

“I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.”

“I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.”

“Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.”

“Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.”

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

“I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.”

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

“I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.”

“I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.”