I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I never really followed grunge.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.