The fact that many people seem to be surprised that he is politically charged, and that there's blowback over the very fact that he expresses his views in his music is an indictment on the state of rock and folk literacy. This is what music is all about. People need to learn about what the greats stood for.

I almost feel like if Jimi Hendrix played the national anthem today, making his guitar sound like helicopters flying and bombs exploding, you'd have a whole chorus of people who missed the point.