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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

I don't smoke, don't drink, don't fuck. At least i can fucking think.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.

What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade

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.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that's it's more important.

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

I just have work to do; I just do it.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

Why do we celebrate the opening of a bar so much?

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?

I have a lot of stuff. Slowly I'm getting all my materials organized.

I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it.