Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

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

Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and mellow for them, and neither was our look or our attitude. While in Vancouver, the two most important early punk bands, D.O.A. and the Subhumans, were both managed by former yippie activists, who saw this as a logical extension of what they were already doing.