Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

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

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

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

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened when we were growing up.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.