You said you don't like getting into politics. Regardless of the condition of the country or any country, we want to remain above that. What we're interested in is making people happy with our music. Things go wrong in the country from time to time, but we feel we could cover a lot more ground in playing down to earth-cooking music rather than complaining about the condition of the country. People hear about that stuff enough without having it shoved down their throats with music.
Music is to refresh the emotions, it's an outlet for the emotions.
If music involves things which bring people down, it's not gonna relieve people's emotions. So our music is basically aimed at feelings which every person experiences. People need an outlet for their emotions, and we feel that music is the greatest outlet in the world. If we can play good music and make people happy with that music, that's what counts. The only reason that's on there is because we are from Chicago.