The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.
I feel displaced when I’m back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don’t get a cup of tea I’m going to lose my mind.
I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn’t mainstream.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don’t want those things in my life.
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It’s like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I’m a feminist. That suits me fine.
Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.
All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don’t have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
Don’t get a job in an abattoir. Don’t be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal’s head off for a living.
I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
I don’t believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it’s killing you! That would be negotiable.
I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.
A ballad once in a while doesn’t go amiss.
There are no real men.
You try to be arrogant in songs because you can’t be in real life.
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
How much did you get for your soul?
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That’s the bottom line.