I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.