If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets.

There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.