Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

by Legs McNeil

I loved Jim Morrison dearly, but Jim was not fun to go out with.

We knew the world generally sucked and we didn’t want to be a part of it. We wanted to do something else, which amounts to not wanting to get up in the morning and have a real job.

They had maybe five or six at the time: “I Don’t Wanna Go Down in the Basement,” “I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You,” “I Don’t Wanna Be Learned, I Don’t Wanna Be Tamed,” and “I Don’t Wanna” something else. And Dee Dee said, “We didn’t write a positive song until ‘Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue’.”