I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

I listen to a lot of Nashville local music, which, for the most part, is punk and grunge music but also alt-country stuff down here.

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

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

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.

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.

Punk music is rebellious.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

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

I think, fundamentally, the core of everything I do is punk rock.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.