secret episodes

Straight edge was just a declaration for the right to live your life the way you want to……it was never intended to be a movement…the vast majority of the people who identify as or with straight edge are human beings who try to do the right thing in their lives. The fact that they are even thinking about their behavior, that they are thinking about the effects of their behavior on the world, is, I believe, positive and good

—Interview with Ian MacKaye, in Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn