The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.