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I think political people are afraid of me.

I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.