When Children Start To Speak They Find

I'm Not Talking About What Came Later [after The American Underground Punk Scene], Indie Music, Or Whatever You Want To Call It, But The Music That Came Before That - That's An Important Story. So Many Interviews With Musicians Get The Time Or Context Wrong. You Have These Older Bands, Usually Men, Who Tell Stories About "oh, We Got Into This Huge Fight, This Guy Punched That Guy," That's The Wrong Sort Of Story. My View Of The Time Is Truly Pioneering.

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.

It Makes Me Sad, The Way Human Beings Talk Smack. It's Why I Don't Like Irony. People Are Too Gleeful To Put Some Teeth Into Something.

It's So Interesting That Humanity Has To Be Defined By Emotional Strife Or Something. I Don't Buy Into That.

There Are Many Things That People Do Happily That I Can't Imagine Why They Would Do It... But I Have To Say That Even Though I Am Critical Or Judgmental Of Society At Large, I'm Not Critical Of People Individually. We Are Who We Are.