Every Song I Ever Wrote, I Wrote

I Stand Behind All The Lyrics I've Ever Written; I Don't Have A Problem With That.

You Can Hear A Real Shift. You Listen To The Late 80s Recordings, You'll Hear Us Engaging With The Audience, Dealing With The Issues Surrounding Punk Shows At The Time. Back Then, People Thought You Had To Be A Skinhead And Beat The Crap Out Of Everybody When You Went To A Punk Show. Come The Early 90s, When You Had This So-called Grunge Stuff And When Videos Became So Dominant, You Had This Totally Huge Shift In The Culture Of Shows.

Skateboarding Is Not A Hobby. And It Is Not A Sport. Skateboarding Is A Way Of Learning How To Redefine The World Around You. For Most People, When They Saw A Swimming Pool, They Thought, ‘let's Take A Swim.' But I Thought, ‘let's Ride It.' When They Saw The Curb Or A Street, They Would Think About Driving On It. I Would Think About The Texture. I Slowly Developed The Ability To Look At The World Through Totally Different Means.

I'm Not A Sports Guy. However It's Interesting To Be In A Place Where People Have A Sporting Fever. One Time I Was In Italy During One Of The European Soccer Cups, And It's Interesting Because It's So Electrifying.

All We Wanted To Do Was To Make Live Records All Available. For Us, The Idea Is To Make It All Available And Let People Decide Which Ones They Like Better. It's Not For Us To Decide. We Don't Care About That. What We're Interested In Is The Idea That We Made These Recordings, And They're Not Doing Anybody A Damn Bit Of Good Sitting In A Closet.