Quotes About Music

Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more into punk ska - Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do.

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.

MySpace was so punk.

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam.

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

I think that my biggest influences are electronic acts. Daft Punk is probably my number 1, then Kanye West would be number 2 after that.

I used to have this little punk pop band, and I don't know why we did 'Behind Blue Eyes,' because it's not punk pop. But we did, it was our slow jam.

I want to play guitar, piano, drums, write songs for other people. I can do punk - I can do indie - but as long as it has my voice, it'll always be my sound.

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music and then rock, punk and heavy metal.

Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it.

When we play live, we go back to our punk roots.

I've always liked Iggy. He did an album, 'New Values,' in the punk days that I played to death. When you see him live, the way he moves, what he does - nothing is planned.

I've been a fan of Bad Brains ever since I can remember. They are iconic pioneers of punk, not just the music but the attitude.

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.

I love the spirit of early pop punk and we incorporated that into our earlier albums.

We like to combine genres. Theo grew up listening to punk, and I love Christina Aguilera.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

I hated everything but punk for a long time.

Doom was one of my favorite crusty punk bands.