Things fall apart, it's scientific.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.