When You're In A Band And Write

People Ask Me: ‘what Is Punk? How Do You Define Punk?' Here's How I Define Punk: It's A Free Space. It Could Be Called Jazz. It Could Be Called Hip-hop. It Could Be Called Blues, Or Rock, Or Beat. It Could Be Called Techno. It's Just A New Idea. For Me, It Was Punk Rock. That Was My Entrance To This Idea Of The New Ideas Being Able To Be Presented In An Environment That Wasn't Being Dictated By A Profit Motive.

Archiving Is Extremely Expensive And Time Consuming. I'm Sure An Archivist Would Tell Me I'm Doing It Wrong. It's An Industry That's Built Upon Essential Ideas, And Some Of Those Practices Are Abusive.

When People Who Are Songwriters Say 'that's My Property And If You Give It Away For Free Then I'll Lose My Incentive,' Then, Well, Good Riddance.

When Someone Writes A Really Nasty Piece About Me. I Think They're Generally Untrue Because I Think I'm A Nice Person.

You Can Hear A Real Shift. You Listen To The Late 80s Recordings, You'll Hear Us Engaging With The Audience, Dealing With The Issues Surrounding Punk Shows At The Time. Back Then, People Thought You Had To Be A Skinhead And Beat The Crap Out Of Everybody When You Went To A Punk Show. Come The Early 90s, When You Had This So-called Grunge Stuff And When Videos Became So Dominant, You Had This Totally Huge Shift In The Culture Of Shows.