I love the acoustic sets. Growing up, me and my dad would always WATCH those because we loved SEEING the SONGS stripped BACK.

Our nation has slashed budgets for education, JOB TRAINING, economic development, and drug TREATMENT while INVESTING billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other FINANCIAL transactions have stripped WEALTH from WORKING FAMILIES.

We GOT a gay FOLLOWING AROUND the time we started using camp DANCERS who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you REALLY get to see who these PEOPLE are, the good and the BAD.

The IDENTITY that I knew was completely stripped of me. I hid, and I hated LIFE; I hated EVERYTHING. The sun would BOTHER me.