I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

In some ways, they've added one more card to their playing hand.

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.

...I am now watching the movie of my life as I live it.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.