Quotes from Jello Biafra

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

If you love god, burn a church.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all.