My parents didn’t hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination. Jello Biafra Read Quote
I didn’t really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. Jello Biafra Read Quote
Respecting other people’s cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It’s indefensible. Jello Biafra Read Quote
What I’m getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half. Jello Biafra Read Quote
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath. Jello Biafra Read Quote
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name. Jello Biafra Read Quote
You’ve got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they’ll be worshipped by future generations. Jello Biafra Read Quote
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He’s very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues. Jello Biafra Read Quote