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Skateboarding Is Not A Hobby. And It Is Not A Sport. Skateboarding Is A Way Of Learning How To Redefine The World Around You. For Most People, When They Saw A Swimming Pool, They Thought, ‘let's Take A Swim.' But I Thought, ‘let's Ride It.' When They Saw The Curb Or A Street, They Would Think About Driving On It. I Would Think About The Texture. I Slowly Developed The Ability To Look At The World Through Totally Different Means.

I Mean, Why Do People Fight Over Sports? Because Of The Framework, The Schematic Of Sports, Those Particular People Seize Upon These Opportunities To Be Violent. And The Number One Problem Using The Same Framework Would Be Religion.

Minor Threat Was An Important Band, Believe Me That It Was Important It In My Life, But It Belongs To An Era That No Longer Exists. I'm Not Nostalgic. I Think Music Today Is Much More Important, Because Something Can Be Done About It.

I Work At A Record Label Where I Have Archives. These Things [memorabilia] Occurred And Are Important To Somebody, And They're Important To Me. I Find The Record Industry Largely Repellent. This Music, The Teen Idles, All Of That Stuff, Is Important To Me. I Don't Have Lawyers, An Agent Or A Manager. However I Find The Music Industry Largely Repellent. I Just Make Records Because That's What I Love To Do. So I Think That Era, Those Pieces Of Media, I Keep In My Collection.

Record Labels Have Enjoyed A 100-year Monopoly Of Selling Plastic And Now They're Up Against A Different Format.