Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

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.

No matter the sphere of life your portion is, you can be successful in it together with the Lord, if you have learned to recognize His time.

Never wish for someone else's life because you never know if they also wish yours was theirs.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

The way I view the works, they're more like feelings than anything else.

There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.