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" If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four? "

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" The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before. "

" I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now. "

" I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later. "

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" I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. "

" If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about. "

" I'm not interested in constructive criticism, believe me. "

" It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work. "

" I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands. "

" I'm not a complainer, I'm a doer. "

" The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time. "

" If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human. "

" We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time. "

" By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing. "

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" Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything. "

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" All teens are in trouble in one form or another. "

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