I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. – 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
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 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