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"Kids think of us as being totally over the hill."
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."

"Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me."
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"Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song."


"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace."


"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture."


"Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry."


"No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore."


"Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music."


"It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation."


"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."


"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything."
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