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.

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

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

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

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

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.