• "You know what punk really is? A bunch of no-talent guys who really, *really* want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can't play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can't sing. It should suck, but here's the thing—it *doesn't*. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It's simple and angry and raw."
• When you come upon something you truly can't live with, the first irrational instinct is to try to outrun it.
• Home was like a split-level Crock-Pot where a guy could stew in his own misery.

ETC

• Johnny Rotten
• Purge
• the Ramones
• Patti Smith
• Television
• the Dead Boys
• Dead Kennedys
• Sex Pistols
• X