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" Don't hate the media, become the media. "
Become
Hate
Media
" Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. "
School
Important
Attention
" For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. "
Prohibition
You
Underground
" I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. "
Music
Start
Writing
" I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while. "
Thinking
Fear
You
" If you love god, burn a church. "
Burn
Church
God
" I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues. "
Feelings
Rights
Labor
" I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation. "
Great
Down
Time
" It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. "
People
Done
Alone
" I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name. "
Yourself
You
Doing
" I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy. "
Body
Brain
Deep
" I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. "
Influence
Style
Writing
" Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies. "
You
Start
Own
" Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. "
Will
Mass
Die
" Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. "
Important
Creating
Stupidity
" Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible. "
People
Line
Islam
" That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash. "
Time
Travel
Road
" The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. "
Down
Ethics
Grass
" The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. "
Punk
Band
Get
" Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. "
Black
Always
Hard
" There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. "
Los Angeles
Open
Work
" We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out. "
Money
Wanted
Put
" Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically. "
Feel
Well
Think
" What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. "
Want
You
Know
" When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous. "
You
Life
Nervous
" You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. "
Golf
Football
People
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