I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you?

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked.It was love, and it was divine.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.