My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.
From Jello Biafra
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.
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
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?
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
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.
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.
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
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