To Me, Music Is No Joke And

I Think About Dischord. There's Been A Pretty Consistent Notion That Dischord Have Been Some Sort Of "overlords" Of The Scene. Some People Have Felt 'they Are Too Cool For Us,' Or 'they Won't Put This Out,' Etc. All We're Doing Is Our Own Work, Our Own Thing. That's All We've Ever Done. Our Work.

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.

When You're In A Band And Write A Song On Your Own, It Isn't Fully Realized Until It Goes Into Somebody Else's Ears.

The Archiving Industry, Much Like The Funeral Industry And The Wedding Industry, These Industries Can Be Very Exploitative.

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.