“I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.” WantChildrenI CanHardAgeHurtCleanMessMy ChildrenSwings Author:Tom Morello
“What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.” PeopleWayMeanHardPlayCertainPlayerDrawsInstrumentsGuitarVansGuitar PlayerCopyingVan Halen Author:Tom Morello
“There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHardKidsFormCulturePowerfulFansLandRocksMessagesMusic IsFunctionRock N RollRock MusicSubversivePopulistElitistApatheticHard RockSohoRock N Roll Music Author:Tom Morello