I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."
Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.
We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos.
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.
Ultimately, to insist that rock criticism be political is first to insist that the humans who make and enjoy music are embroiled in politics whether they like it or not - and whether they know it or not.
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
We're one of the only bands that get censored for theological commentary.
Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Colombian culture has a lot of music - it's in our blood; it's in our DNA.
