It’s much easier to light your merch money on fire when it’s only thirty dollars. I watch videos of that kind of shit and wonder how I have any friends at all.

You can go faster if you take your shoes off.

Yesterday some woman asked, “Does that picture of Frank Zappa on the toilet make you horny?”

Toys That Kill and Rivethead were touring and showed up to Omaha and the promoter said, “You guys don’t have to play. No one’s here.” So we call that getting Omaha’d.

Their unbridled energy and positivity was like a fucking revelation
in the midst of the sea of bearded, pseudo-curmudgeons.

The idea of reclaiming our lives for ourselves was always a sweetly romantic reality for me. We had a couple guys in the band who took the idea to the limit one morning in Ohio and got arrested for shoplifting breakfast for us all.

We try to write fast songs and they suck.

Pierre: The show was going pretty good when in the middle of a set this kid yells out, “You guys are phat!” I look over at Larry and both of us at the same time lift up our shirts and stick our bellies out like, yeah, we’re fat, so fucking what?

Larry: And the kid’s like, “No, P-H-A-T phat.” So, thanks, buddy.

I think we put stuff together and find the meaning later.

The case provoked international outrage and helped generate support for the civil rights movement

We deal with the kind of thing we came from—and the dope, and the heroin, and excess, the punk rock loss of values, or complete snubbing our noses or giving it the finger—if it was the wrong way to do things then that was our way, and to the hilt.

The holy trinity of suck: Foreigner, Styx, and Kansas.

Heather: I played guitar when I was in middle school because that was the cheapest instrument to rent.

"Two bananas could never hurt anybody."

A sense of frustration against the world. All kinds of shit. Small towns, government, cops, moms and dads and Jesus.

Twenty-three hour lockdown with three black guys that were trying to teach me how to meditate. One guy had one arm.

Dave had a jacket with Ramones written on the back. The dean grabbed him and he mispronounced the name of the band. “Who’s this Roman Ohs? Are you starting a gang?”

“These are on their way out and we need a flag. What better way to eulogize my most trusted and favorite pair of underpants than to hoist it atop a mountain?”

When you’re young, you’re like a sponge and you have a deeper connection with music. So my feeling is I think when people liked the band way back then there’s always going to be a little place for us.

The surprise is that it was there for so long, existing under the radar, and the place never got shut down.

Punk was all about staying the same as your audience.

Recording in the studio is much different than recording at home. You’re striving for something perfect when you record in the studio. You lose something in the process.

Music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can’t do. It can deepen the feelings that people have about issues.