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" Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. "

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" Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. "

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" We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out. "

" Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically. "

" 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. "

" Don't hate the media, become the media. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "