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Major Labels Didn't Start Showing Up Really Until They Smelled Money, And That's All They're Ever Going To Be Attracted To Is Money-that's The Business They're In- Making Money.

"straight Edge" Was A Song About My Life. There Was No Structure, No Premise As If I Was Forming A Club. There Were No Tenets. I Mean I Wrote A Song Called "straight Edge," I'll Take That, But The Song Was About My Life The Way I Wanted To Live It.

I'm Not A Sports Dude, But I'm Interested In The Sociological Implications Of It.

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.

You Can Hear A Real Shift. You Listen To The Late 80s Recordings, You'll Hear Us Engaging With The Audience, Dealing With The Issues Surrounding Punk Shows At The Time. Back Then, People Thought You Had To Be A Skinhead And Beat The Crap Out Of Everybody When You Went To A Punk Show. Come The Early 90s, When You Had This So-called Grunge Stuff And When Videos Became So Dominant, You Had This Totally Huge Shift In The Culture Of Shows.