I'm not a sports dude, but I'm interested in the sociological implications of it..

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult..

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it..

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by..

People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-h….

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale..

"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 ….

I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you g….

We're on tour for six months out of the year..

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format..

The food thing is crazy to me. In this town the beer thing is also crazy to me. Frankly even with Brightest Young Things, it's such a celebration of ….

For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing..

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….

I'm a fifth generation Washingtonian and I was born and raised here. My kid's a sixth generation Washingtonian. Honestly I wish people didn't move be….

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people'….

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance..

There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards..

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost ….

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 ….

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be m….

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about th….