"If you love god, burn a church."

"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."

"That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash."

"I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?"

"Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board."

"What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for."

"When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous."

"It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda."

"Don't hate the media, become the media."

"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."

"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."

"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."

"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."

"There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away."

"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground."

"The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies."

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

"You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course."

"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible."

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

"Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys."

"The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics."

"This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs."

"I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco."

"Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath."

"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers."