If I am not doing something illicit, I feel absolutely naked. — Jack Terricloth

"People often ask me, "Jack, youre old. How do you manage to get out of the house and be so outraged and hop up and down so very often?" And of course, I respond, "Could you lend me ten bucks so I can buy some drugs?"

"My older friends say, "I was in a punk band once, and we used to be pretty outraged. We would get pretty angry, wed get a stomp going or something, we would rally against Reagan, or other elected officials. But now I am an older man, and I have some responsibilities, so I really cannot be excited. I appreciate Kurt Cobain, and Im excited about all those bands that seem very angry, but—why would you keep doing this after all these years?" And I say, "Because I still hate you and Im trying to prove to you that youre wrong." Because, really, if youre bored and youre listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy."

"Theres a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? Id like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz."

"Interviewer says "Yeah, and I watched that but I actually was kind of like, terrified by the intensity of your fans and I was wondering if the intensity of your fans ever kind of scares you? I hear that they have a bunch of rules for what dances to do during certain songs…I was like ‘Oh God’."

"It was great the way we changed the mind of the nation and fascism was defeated and all the troops were home by Christmas."

"What better place than this? What better choice than us?"