Stores can be indifferent to something new.

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.

I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.