Quotes by Jello Biafra

• Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
• Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.
• It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
• I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
• The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
• The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.
• 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.
• I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?
• For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.
• All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either.
• Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
• 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 went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
• 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.
• This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
• We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.
• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
• What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
• 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.
• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.