All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.