"I went to my first punk rock show and it was great. Then the second punk rock show that I went to was lame. I realized then that it wasn’t what someone says, it’s about the band. That’s more important than a title. We decided we wanted to do our version of what we thought music should be.

Juice Magazine: Did that make anyone mad?

We didn’t follow the rules of what other punk bands were doing, so we pissed off a lot of people. It’s like the first interview we did in Flipside. I said, “We’re not here to be the twentieth band written on the back of a leather jacket, we’re here to get those people to take off those jackets and put on Suicidal shirts.” People didn’t like that. They were like “Why don’t you support your scene?” I said, “Why should I go to see some band if I don’t like them just because they say they’re punk rock.” To me that wasn’t punk rock. If you look at the ideology of punk rock, that’s not what the Sex Pistols were saying. They were saying it shouldn’t matter how you look or how you dress. It’s about if you’re good or not. It’s honesty and doing what you believe."

(Mike Muir, front-man-ul Suicidal Tendencies, de vorba cu Juice Magazine)