It's Just Hard To Have A Nuanced

I Work So I Don't Need To Make Rent Through My Songs, And I Think If More People Engaged With Music Without Needing It To Provide For Their Welfare, You're Not Beholden To Anyone.

"straight Edge" Was A Song About My Life. There Was No Structure, No Premise As If I Was Forming A Club. There Were No Tenets. I Mean I Wrote A Song Called "straight Edge," I'll Take That, But The Song Was About My Life The Way I Wanted To Live It.

I Think That People Are Constantly Thinking About Capturing Things That They're Not Actually Present For The Moment They're Trying To Capture. I'm Quite Sure Of This. I Think It's Insane How Many Pictures Have To Be Taken These Days. We Have To Realize There's A Level Of Documentation That's Just Chatter, It's Noise, And Beyond That, People Who Are Truly Documenting Are Going To Have To Find A Way To Puncture That.

The Only Thing That Drives Music Is The People Who Are Making It.

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.