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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

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So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.

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Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

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Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

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The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

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I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

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All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.

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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

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Don't hate the media, become the media.

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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

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I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

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They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

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When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

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If you love god, burn a church.

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Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

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I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

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The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

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I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

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That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

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Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

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What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

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If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

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What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

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We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

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I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

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Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

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My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

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