After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.
If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.
Punk may have helped me find my voice and made me realise that I had the right to have one, but it was riot grrrl that helped me sustain that voice and shout a little louder.
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make music like Ford made cars on the industrial belt. Industrial music for industrial people.
I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.
All punk rockers hate Christmas.
I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there was a focus on self-destruction.
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
I'm not a snob. I like ghetto rap and punk rock and all that stuff.
The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.
I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.
I'm a tomboy, and my style is punk.
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
