Quotes About Youth

I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

Good Charlotte are a band with punk values - they look it, they grew up on the music, and they believe in the punk ethos.

Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.

I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

I will always, no matter what, be a punk more than anything.

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

My whole life is punk.

I was in punk bands when I was a kid, and then I would do stand-up in between bands - which wasn't any different from my singing.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

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 was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.

I was into this one guy that was like, punk and cool and rock 'n roll. So I went out and bought black high top Converse.

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

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 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.

There is something familial about punk. There is something positive. Even though some punk is destructive, nihilistic, explosive.

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.

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

I think I'm a punk rocker at heart. I just love the aggression in that music.

I hated everything but punk for a long time.