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One Of My Friends Was A Stage Hand At A Bob Dylan Show In The Mid-90s And I Remember Him Telling Me That Somebody Crowd Surfed During The Gig. And This Friend Of Mine Was An Old Punk Rock Guy - He Was Totally Humiliated By It. But Some Of Bob's People Were There And They Said, "oh, Bob Will Be So Excited! This Is The Kind Of Energy We Want At His Shows." That's Where The Old School Was At.

Every Song I Ever Wrote, I Wrote To Be Heard. So, If I Was Given A Choice That 50 Years From Now I Could Either Have A Dollar Or Knowing That Some Kid Was Listening To My Song, I'd Go With The Kid Listening To My Song.

I Think That The Idea Of Straight Edge, The Song That I Wrote, And The Way People Have Related It It, There's Some People Who Have Abused It, They've Allowed Their Fundamentalism To Interfere With The Real Message, Which In My Mind, Was That People Should Be Allowed To Live Their Lives The Way They Want To.

Yeah, If Someone's Selling Downloads And Collecting Money For Our Songs I Would Be Unhappy About That But If They're Trading It I Don't Mind, Obviously If I Make A Thousand Records Or Cds Or Whatever, I Like To Sell A Thousand.

I Work At A Record Label Where I Have Archives. These Things [memorabilia] Occurred And Are Important To Somebody, And They're Important To Me. I Find The Record Industry Largely Repellent. This Music, The Teen Idles, All Of That Stuff, Is Important To Me. I Don't Have Lawyers, An Agent Or A Manager. However I Find The Music Industry Largely Repellent. I Just Make Records Because That's What I Love To Do. So I Think That Era, Those Pieces Of Media, I Keep In My Collection.