Jello Biafra Quotes & Sayings

“For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.”

“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.”

“You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.”

“Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.”

“If you love god, burn a church.”

“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.”

“I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”

“I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.”

“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.”

“Don't hate the media, become the media.”