People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Even though it's an unpopular paradigm, wear your heart on your sleeve, and mean what you say. Believe in what you say, and there will be a time for that. Maybe that time hasn't come yet, but there will be a time for that.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.