I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.
I don't think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.
Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
I love punk rock, but I also love metal.
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
