For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

I think it's a nice payback. There aren't many people that kind of give back to artists that were their inspiration. Most people think they're . . . they're very self bloated.

I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.