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Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

Patriotism does not mean giving blind loyalty and a blank check to George W. Bush.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again
S-E-R-F music.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

A hairstyle's not a lifestyle.

I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

If you love god, burn a church.

If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

Balance the budget ? Tax religion.

I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

Don't hate the media; become the media.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.