Chad Gilbert Quotes

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

Pup, who's like the most amazing, they're keeping rock 'n' roll and punk alive.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

I was always a punk rock skate kid from a very young age.

I don't really have anything nice to say about pop-country radio.

I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of artists, misfits and weirdos, where everyone was welcomed and encouraged to express themselves.

I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.

I thank God for all the independent hard rock that I grew up with.

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

To be involved in the subculture of punk rock puts you in a minority.

The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.

I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.