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“Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.”
“The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.”
“My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.”
“Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.”
“I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.”
“You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.”
“The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.”
“I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”
“I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.”
“When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.”
“I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.”
“Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.”
“For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.”
“So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.”
“What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.”
“Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.”
“I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?”
“That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.”
“I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.”
“It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.”