The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

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