The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.