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.
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.
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.
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
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.
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.
We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
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.
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
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.
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
Don't hate the media, become the media.
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.
For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.