Exclusive: Interview with John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting
My latest Townhall column + interview.
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Grammy-nominated musician and Five for Fighting frontman John Ondrasik.
Our conversation was expanded for my new Townhall column, and the full video can be found on YouTube.
Here are some highlights:
“It's always been kind of a tightrope for me. I kind of have a certain disdain for celebrities who get on their soapbox and lecture us about their politics as our moral betters. But there's also a history in music of people writing about the times and people writing about world events.”
“Everything's taken politically because we're such a tribal society, but they're moral messages, right?… Something's broken in America. We've lost our soul, and that's something if we don't address the consequences, I think, will be dire.”
“I met hostage families in Israel too, when I went and I sat with a father whose son was 24 years old and has been hostage for what, boy, we're coming up on ten months now. And my son was sitting next to me–my 24 year old son– and I kept looking at my son, going, we could be switched. It could be my son that was hostage and, and how could I and my wife deal with that?…And the fact that there's not more focus on our hostage families is, again, I think, a sign that something's broken.”
Watch on YouTube