We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what I believe.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.
I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.