The American Underground Punk Scene,

I Think That People Are Constantly Thinking About Capturing Things That They're Not Actually Present For The Moment They're Trying To Capture. I'm Quite Sure Of This. I Think It's Insane How Many Pictures Have To Be Taken These Days. We Have To Realize There's A Level Of Documentation That's Just Chatter, It's Noise, And Beyond That, People Who Are Truly Documenting Are Going To Have To Find A Way To Puncture That.

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'm Not Talking About What Came Later [after The American Underground Punk Scene], Indie Music, Or Whatever You Want To Call It, But The Music That Came Before That - That's An Important Story. So Many Interviews With Musicians Get The Time Or Context Wrong. You Have These Older Bands, Usually Men, Who Tell Stories About "oh, We Got Into This Huge Fight, This Guy Punched That Guy," That's The Wrong Sort Of Story. My View Of The Time Is Truly Pioneering.

It's Just Hard To Have A Nuanced Discussion With Like A Thousand People, 30 Of Which Are White-power Skinheads.

I Think Sometimes My Humor Is Extremely Dry, And A Lot Of Times I Would Say Things That I Thought Were Very Funny But... I Have A Reputation Of - People Think Of Me As A Very Fundamentalist, Humorless Fellow.