I've Had People Call Me

I Have Other Projects To Do. I Try Not To Let That Documentation Interfere With My Present Day.

I Think That The Idea Of Straight Edge, The Song That I Wrote, And The Way People Have Related It It, There's Some People Who Have Abused It, They've Allowed Their Fundamentalism To Interfere With The Real Message, Which In My Mind, Was That People Should Be Allowed To Live Their Lives The Way They Want To.

Columbia Heights Was A Poor, Messed Up Area, And The Church Was In The Middle Of It. What Happened Inside Was A Reflection Of The Community. I Actually Saw My First Rock Concert On The Altar Of That Church [st. Stephen's].

People Ask Me: ‘what Is Punk? How Do You Define Punk?' Here's How I Define Punk: It's A Free Space. It Could Be Called Jazz. It Could Be Called Hip-hop. It Could Be Called Blues, Or Rock, Or Beat. It Could Be Called Techno. It's Just A New Idea. For Me, It Was Punk Rock. That Was My Entrance To This Idea Of The New Ideas Being Able To Be Presented In An Environment That Wasn't Being Dictated By A Profit Motive.

I've Always Been A Bit Of A Documentarian.