Major labels didnt start showing up really until they smelled money, and thats all theyre ever going to be attracted to is money-thats the business theyre in- making money. – Ian MacKaye
Im really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I dont want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made. – Ian MacKaye
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye
I dont dismiss the music that I was involved with, I dont think it was a joke, I dont think it was funny or a phase, I dont think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I dont distance myself from any of it. – Ian MacKaye