“Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”

“He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.”

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”

“My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.”

“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”

“I won't eat anything green.”

“My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.”

“Rather be dead than cool.”