and expanded the event in 2000 to show support for all prisoners on death row and to speak out against the exponential growth of militarism and the prison industrial complex. |
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All the freaky people make the beauty of the world. |
Epitaph is a label that I've admired for a long time. It's kind of like a record label that would be my own personal record collection at home: punk rock, hip-hop, and great, classic, creative music. |
Every single soul is a poem. |
Everyone deserves music. |
I went to Iraq as a listener. I just got tired of watching the news every night and hearing generals and politicians talking about the economics and the politics of the war, and never explaining the human cost of the war. I just wanted to go there and listen to people. |
It never would have happened without the Internet. |
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. |
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. |
Power to the peaceful! |
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human. |
Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. |
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power. |
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. |