If You Want To Rebel Against Society,

I Think What We Took Away From First Hearing About The Punk Stuff In England And Then The Early American Punk Stuff Was A Sense Of Self-definition And Also Sort Of Playing Music For Music's Sake And Being Part Of A Family For Family's Sake.

I Feel Quite Connected To The Past, And My Memory. Everything That I've Ever Done I Can Still Relate To, And Feel Connected To It In A Way. There's No Part Of My Life That I Look At And Go, 'i Don't Recognize That Person At All.

I'm Not Talking About What Came Later [after The American Underground Punk Scene], Indie Music, Or Whatever You Want To Call It, But The Music That Came Before That - That's An Important Story. So Many Interviews With Musicians Get The Time Or Context Wrong. You Have These Older Bands, Usually Men, Who Tell Stories About "oh, We Got Into This Huge Fight, This Guy Punched That Guy," That's The Wrong Sort Of Story. My View Of The Time Is Truly Pioneering.

Bars Are Meeting Places And Places To Unwind. But At Some Point, What Is Culture Unwinding From, And Why Can't They Meet Anywhere Else?

I Think Sometimes My Humor Is Extremely Dry, And A Lot Of Times I Would Say Things That I Thought Were Very Funny But... I Have A Reputation Of - People Think Of Me As A Very Fundamentalist, Humorless Fellow.