Well, Once You Get Involved

I Got Turned On To Rock Music Almost By Mistake When I Was Seven Years Old.

My Parents Didn't Hide Reality. I Watched Cartoons And The News With Equal Fascination.

In Many Ways, I Have No Idea What Would Have Become Of Me If Punk Hadn't Happened, Because The '70s Turned Out To Be So Stale, And So Boring, And So Backward Compared To What Had Come Just Before. We Were Too Young To Have Fully Experienced The '60s And The Fervor Of The Anti-war Movement.

If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve.

I Saw The Ramones, Early On At A Country-rock Palace In Denver. They Were Opening For Some Record-company Band, So The Local Music Establishment, And I Emphasize The Word "establishment," Was There In Force, And The Handful Of Us Who Knew The Ramones Were Up In Front. And Half The Fun Was, You Know, Not Only Were The Ramones The Most Powerful Band I Had Ever Seen At That Point, But They Made It Look So Simple - That Anyone Could Do It, Hell, Even I Could Do It. This Is What I Should Be Doing.