Jack Terricloth Quotes

Interviewer says "How do you become a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society?"

It was great the way we changed the mind of the nation and fascism was defeated and all the troops were home by Christmas.

My older friends say, "I was in a punk band once, and we used to be pretty outraged. We would get pretty angry, we'd get a stomp going or something, we would rally against Reagan, or other elected officials. But now I am an older man, and I have some responsibilities, so I really cannot be excited. I appreciate Kurt Cobain, and I'm excited about all those bands that seem very angry, but—why would you keep doing this after all these years?" And I say, "Because I still hate you and I'm trying to prove to you that you're wrong." Because, really, if you're bored and you're listless, you just need to get yourself an enemy.

What better place than this? What better choice than us?

Interviewer says "Maybe you can give us some chores that have to be done like Hercules had to do ten of them so maybe we could do ten of them"

All you have to do is put all other concerns aside and your fondest desire will come true. Unfortunately, 'all other concerns' includes your health, financial well-being, interpersonal relationships, and often any inkling of why you had this desire in the first place. Good luck!

What do you think makes a good rock front man? Shamelessness, I’d imagine.

Everything's going to be okay, even though it's all terribly wrong.

Punk's an attitude. Punk's not three-chord rock. If you want to listen to three chord rock, there's southern rock.

If I am not doing something illicit, I feel absolutely naked.

It is every singer's ambition, whether they acknowledge it or not, to croon.

There's a shop on the next corner, North Six, between Wythe and Berry? I'd like you all to go smash it up. Now, if anyone asks you who told you to do this, I want you to keep mum. It was Franz.

Interviewer says "Yeah, and I watched that but I actually was kind of like, terrified by the intensity of your fans and I was wondering if the intensity of your fans ever kind of scares you? I hear that they have a bunch of rules for what dances to do during certain songs…I was like ‘Oh God’."

Have you noticed that bank tellers are almost always very attractive? Is it because they're on display back there behind the glass so close and yet so far? Or is it like bartenders they have so much of what we want?

My favorite wine is usually whatever is right in front of me.