GG's words are in regular text. Merle's are in boldface.

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...about three years in prison, and basically the whole time I was in prison I was seeing psychiatrists. And they were trying to find out, you know, what made me be this person. And the whole time I was going, I would just build this wall around myself, like I've done throughout life. And I just blocked everything out. Because, you know, I don't really personally care what anybody thinks about what I do, because it's not gonna stop me from doing it. No amount of jail or prison time is gonna stop me from being who I am.

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As far as the punk rock scenе...

Yeah. I mean, I get a lot of letters from kids, you know, all around the world. But you have to sort out who's really in it for real and who's in it just because they think it's cool. And if they're in it just because they think it's cool, then, you know, they're not any friend of mine. And they don't believe in what I believe in. But there's a real hardcore following out there of people that want a revolution, that want to destroy the music industry.

And the punk scene to me - especially right now, and the whole heavy metal thing - is pretty fraudulent these days. You've got a lot of bands putting on costumes, and you've got a lot of bands, you know, saying things that they really don't believe, because they think it's the thing to say. I mean, I've done this for 15 years, and this is how I look all the time. It's not... it's a very real thing, for what we do. And I don't think that a lot of bands are putting their life into it. I think, for a lot of them, they use the underground as sort of a steppingstone for the major-label sellout, with this big fucking so-called "alternative" label now. And it's basically all pretty fucking lame, and those are the people that I'd like to fucking kill.