The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

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

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.