Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

If you love god, burn a church.

We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.