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" Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations. "

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" The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it. "

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" The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. "

" To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. "

" I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good. "

" When I was hitching, I'd be completely decked out. I used to wear this custom-made black jumpsuit, these, like, pink, knee-high platform boots, all kinds of rhinestones, lots of dangling belts and gloves. "