I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

It’s just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

Yeah, if someone’s selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they’re trading it I don’t mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they’re generally untrue because I think I’m a nice person.

I think about Dischord. There’s been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of “overlords” of the scene. Some people have felt ’they are too cool for us, or they won’t put this out, etc. All we’re doing is our own work, our own thing. That’s all we’ve ever done. Our work.

It’s so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don’t buy into that.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they’re up against a different format.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I’ve made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I’ve already talked about the music I’m digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.