Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?
Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

