"Globalisation is a great thing, and the genie's out of the bottle; it's called the Information Revolution.  It has a promise to bring opportunity and information to all corners of the world.  It's a wonderful thing."

“I do feel like, kinda like a misfit; usually I feel, inside, I'm a misfit.  Like, I don't really watch sports, or a lot of…”

“Yeah, I was a Democrat for about four or five years—active Democrat—and I thought I could reform the party; maybe I wasn't going about it right, maybe somebody can and somebody will, y'know?  But I don't see it.  It's just a top-down structure, it's a soft-money conduit, and, y'know, and like Nancy Pelosi, she's gonna lose the election again, and it's just like, what's the definition of insanity?  Doing the same thing—wrong, wrong thing—over and over again.  Republicans, they have a real big demographic problem, because they're the party of old white people, and they're not reaching out to folks.”

“Well, I think it just goes back to the values that I grew up with in the punk rock world because it was this decentralised world, and so we just made our own way—like we'd be antigovernment or, you know—but we really didn't complain a lot; we were more action-oriented, like, people were publishing fanzines, we were setting up shows, we were getting in vans and touring around, and we were associating with other people, so…y'know, I just like that idea.”

“We weren't really interested in those bands; we were—because we came out of this subterranean scene.  And then Nirvana breaks big, and it's just diametrically opposite: we have, like, facial hair, and just, kind of, logger shirts, but we're all, like, "sensitive" and "feminine"—you know what I mean?”

“It seems like our politics is so old, like, it almost seems like turning on the t.v. and there's ABC and CBS and NBC, and, y'know, there's like one newspaper in town, and so they're all pushing things on us, and that's all going away.”

“America is a fucking police state.”