It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.

Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?

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

I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some people have felt 'they are too cool for us,' or 'they won't put this out,' etc. All we're doing is our own work, our own thing. That's all we've ever done. Our work.

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.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.