Duff McKagan thinks everyone should speak out on public issues.

As the Guns N’ Roses bassist is doing press before the release of his upcoming solo album, Tenderness, which touches upon social topics like shootings and sexual assault, McKagan commented on the subject when he stopped by SiriusXM’s Volume.

He said, “This is what we were trying to form a country around – everybody having a voice. And somewhere along the way, ‘Yeah shut up and sing,’ ‘shut up and play basketball,’ and even saying ‘shut up.’ This is America. Speak out.”

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