I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.
I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me.
You have to live hardcore to be hardcore.
I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
My interaction with my followers on social media has become a phenomenon, and that's hardcore work every day! I have carpal tunnel from typing on my device.
People used the term "hardcore" loosely. A lot of bands use it as a jumping stone to the next level. Hardcore, it's got a lot more to with then music. It's a very passionate movement.
There are a lot of wankers, and a lot of people who think they are really hardcore and cool but they're not.
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
Now you're the Queen of Hardcore, but movies don't count!
Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.
Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.
Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.
I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.
I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated.
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
"Positive mental attitude" is totally hardcore. It's DIY.
I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.
I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.
I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.
