Do you think there is a significant relevance between what was going on then and what is happening now? I mean, we're once again a country at war.

It's an unbroken line. It just keeps getting worse from my perspective.

Do you mean from the political perspective?

Well everything, it's the culture – the deteriorating degenerate culture. I don't mean that in any particular way. It's the trading of intelligence for dollars. It's all because there are a lot of greedy people who are making a lot of money off of this. They have no compunction to elevate or educate; they just want to take their money and throw them on the side. I hate that.

I live in Holland where we don't have people sleeping out on the street. You know, it's all what a society wants. It turns out this is what America wants. They wanted to discard all of their values to have a bigger car that takes $3.50 to the gallon for gas.

I'm pretty unremitting in my critique (laughs). It doesn't matter who the politicians are. They've proved that. They have a mechanism that works for the rich people, and they get richer and richer as statistics prove.

You look at big business with millions and millions…

I'm a big baseball fan. But why does Pudge Rodriguez have to get 10 million dollars a year? Or others get 15 million dollars each year. What are they going to do with that? How much money do they need? So if someone wants to take their family to the ballgame it costs $100, or more than that.

I was going to say, when was the last time you were to Tiger Stadium? It costs more than that to take a family of four to a pro ball game.

We used to go all the time and sit in the bleachers for three dollars. I don't say that to dis these guys, but god damn. 50 cent is worth a hundred million dollars. What kind of world is that? I don't live there mentally.

There's one tier of extremely wealthy, but then there is also high unemployment.

Oh yeah, and you have the underclass that they don't even want to acknowledge until they turn out 20,000 of them in the Superdome waiting for a bus. That was the first time they saw people like that on TV in a long, long time. Americans didn't know they still existed. I don't know; I hate this society. I'm sorry, let me stand right up.

It's okay, if that's how you feel. Do you think the things you wrote in Guitar Army are still relevant? Are there things people today can draw from to change the human condition?