I don’t even listen to 90 percent of the shit that’s out there now. I like shit where there is some soul pouring out of it. If motherfuckers ain’t going through something, how are they going to say anything about anything? You’re singing about how tough you had it in the suburbs of Connecticut because you didn’t get your fuckin’ Gameboy on time. I mean, give me a fuckin’ break. If you don’t go through some adversity in life, you don’t have shit to say as far as I am concerned. That is why the Cro-Mags put out Age of Quarrel. I was living in a motherfucking squat—and it wasn’t like we were summer squatters going to Western Union to get money from Mommy and Daddy. We lived that shit and that is why the album was the way it was.
— Interview by TREVOR SILMSER, BLOODCLOT! - John Joseph of the Cro-Mags Makes the Rest of Us Look Like Pussies
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