My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

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