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 started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.
Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.
Every girl wants songs written about her. Even the most hardened tattoo-covered punk rock girl would love a nice ballad written for her.
Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.
I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.
To me punk rock is thinking outside of the box, outside of the program, outside the establishment.
I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.
Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.
I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.
Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.