Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just obliterate Dischord and Pitchfork. And there'll be some people crying, there'll be some slow singing, but for 99% of the world, it won't even affect the fly on their soup. Most of the world never have, or ever will hear of me, Fugazi, or Pitchfork. Right now, someone just got killed in Ukraine. Do you feel any different?

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.