"I dabbled in politics in the late 1960s and 1970s, more out of guilt than anything...."

"... Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something, or get punched in the face to prove I'm one of the people. I was doing it against my instincts."

Something John Lennon said in 1980 (a year before he was shot to death).

I wonder how many of the artists who seem politically engaged feel something like this.