Krist Novoselic

"Well, I think it just goes back to the values that I grew up with in the punk rock world because it was this decentralised world, and so we just made our own way—like wed be antigovernment or, you know—but we really didnt complain a lot; we were more action-oriented, like, people were publishing fanzines, we were setting up shows, we were getting in vans and touring around, and we were associating with other people, so…yknow, I just like that idea."

"A corporation is a group of people, and if you want to come together for profit or nonprofit, thats your business—whatever you want to do."

"Well, it was just—it seemed like it was violence, and, like, cause I went by some of the stores that, like, I dont really eat at McDonalds, yknow, but a lot of people do, and so there are these people who want, yknow, theyre-theyre socialists but they hate people, yknow, so they go trash the McDonalds, and I just think it was just reckless violence, and they werent tryina accomplish anything, and they said—he was writing something on the wall, some kind of graffiti that was just stupid and cliché, and I said, "Hey, how would you like if someone did that to your house?" and he yelled back, "Fuck you!" and these other people started yelling "Fuck you!" at me; Im, like, "Oh," like "Im in trouble."

"I own guns. I think theyre a good tool to have out in the country, and I should be able to protect my home and my family."

"I like my guns. Yeah, because it just makes me more comfortable."

"If you hear a song you like, start dancing. Thats what I do, Ill just start dancing, and thats it. Thats all there is to it."

"America is a fucking police state."

"I voted last week, and everything I voted for was defeated. I voted for less police station money and against adding more courtrooms. The guy I voted for, a congressman, lost big time because hes totally anti-military. He wanted to cut the CIA budget! Hes really cool. But he lost."

"I do feel like, kinda like a misfit; usually I feel, inside, Im a misfit. Like, I dont really watch sports, or a lot of…"

"It seems like our politics is so old, like, it almost seems like turning on the t.v. and theres ABC and CBS and NBC, and, yknow, theres like one newspaper in town, and so theyre all pushing things on us, and thats all going away."

"Nick Gillespie: So, um, how do you self-describe politically? Krist Novoselic: Im a, what, an anarcho-capitalist socialist…I dont know…Im kinda a moderate, I think Im moderate. Nick Gillespie: So youre an anarcho-capitalist socialist moderate. Krist Novoselic: I mean Im a gun-owning pacifist, so there you go. Im an anarcho-socialist—you know what I mean? Nick Gillespie: Anarcho-socialist— Krist Novoselic: —capitalist— Nick Gillespie: —capitalist, gun-toting… Krist Novoselic: Yeah, its just like I, yknow, I just tryina, tryina make it work in this world and...basically Im just a small-D democrat."

"I dont think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be."