I don’t mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn’t tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better. Greg Graffin Read Quote
It’s been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. Greg Graffin Read Quote
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. Greg Graffin Read Quote
I would say there’s a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It’s written for the common man. Greg Graffin Read Quote
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It’s still a vibrant scene creeping into every crevasse of youth culture. When you hear grunge, you think of the ’90s, but when you hear L.A. punk, it’s timeless. Greg Graffin Read Quote
You can’t take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue. Greg Graffin Read Quote
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn’t based on fairy tales. It’s based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort. Greg Graffin Read Quote
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we’re still just infants. We’re way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power. Greg Graffin Read Quote
As a scientist, of course, we have to believe there is no supernatural. There are only natural entities in the universe. And those are the things that we study as natural scientists. Greg Graffin Read Quote
