Quotes About Music

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

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 guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

I grew up listening to everything. I was in rock n' roll bands and punk bands, and I loved bluegrass and country music, too. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. Next thing you know, you're a country singer.