{On his work appearing on the Internet} It's a conflicted feeling. I'm really a populist, down in the very center of me. I like the power people can accrue for themselves, and I like the idea of user-generated content and taking power from the corporations. The other half of the conflict, though, is that, traditionally speaking, artists are protected from copyright infringement. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about solving this issue. It's someone else's job.

Floating around the Internet these days, posted and e-mailed back and forth, are a number of writings attributed to me, and I want people to know they're not m…

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figurat…

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

'What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have mu…

There can be no music without ideology. The old composers, whether they knew it or not, were upholding a political theory. Most of them, of course, were bolste…

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.