The structure that made this possible is without shame. We're creating a new class of poor people who are energy-poor, while devastating prices allow powerful people to become even more powerful.

The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. Everybody you talk to is saying that they have to cut down on other expenses just to put gasoline in their car or to pay their utility bills. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

I get emotional for working class people and poor (people). He gets emotional for the rich and likes to throw stones at working families.

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

The people who were in his first class, they wanted that creative energy to continue. There were other people in the class who felt the same way I did. We didn't know what to do next, or as far as getting our music published.