When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.

All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.