Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

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

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

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

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.