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

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

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

News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.

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

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

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.