There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

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.

One relationship didn't work out, but that doesn't mean relationships never work out. One single experience isn't representative of all of them.

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable we got more outer space chi.

Act your part with honor.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.