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 not a religious person, and Im not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples. – Ian MacKaye
There are many things that people do happily that I cant imagine why they would do it… But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, Im not critical of people individually. We are who we are. – 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