Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix has some strong feelings regarding the current U.S. political climate. Speaking to NME, he offered:
“I’m on the ticket of ‘none of the above’. I am really not impressed with American politics and American politicians. The state of affairs is really fucking depressing, and it saddens me.”
“In reality as I look at myself and I’ve lived this life I am beyond ‘Yeah I live in America, yes I pay taxes in America’, but beyond that I’m a fucking human being. You know what I mean?
And to me that comes before anything, is that I’m a human being, and human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and that’s what I strive for, that’s the standard that I hold to myself and to the people around me, and the current administration is just seems like a fucking shit show and I am not impressed, I am not a fan and I think we have a long way to go.”
When asked about how people can bring about change, he offered:
“For me, the starting point is how do I act and how do I treat the people that I come directly in contact with. That’s how I change the world, all this other shit is noise; it’s person to person, it’s man to man, it’s woman to man – it’s relational.
Because nine times out of ten if you get in a conversation with somebody and you really break it down you’re going to find so many things that you have in common versus things that you don’t have in common and in reality a lot of these people, they’re just caught up in the noise and that’s exactly what they want is us bickering about the small stupid shit and just keep us in that state of screaming at each other to where we can’t do anything. So the awakening I believe in the way we treat each other individually.”
Papa Roach‘s new album “Crooked Teeth” is in stores now.
