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"I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation."

"What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half."

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

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

"So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all."

"I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco."
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"I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all."
Punk,

"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican."

"I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years."

"Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers."

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk,
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