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.

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

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

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.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.