I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!
Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.
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.
Punk music is perfect for me because I'm not, like, a master at any instrument.
I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.
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.
When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.
We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a lot. We only saw pictures and read zines, so we could only interpret the aesthetic and message of punk scenes around the world. We were basically the duck-billed platypuses of punk.
These people want you to quit just like CM Punk did.
When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.
Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.