To Me, Music Is No Joke And

As Far As The Bands That Are Reforming Now, It's Always Nice To See Old Friends And Hear Some Of Those Great Songs, But It's Just Not Our Thing.

It's So Interesting That Humanity Has To Be Defined By Emotional Strife Or Something. I Don't Buy Into That.

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.

"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.

The American Underground Punk Scene, Though, Is A Story Worth Remembering.