Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

The Go-Go's were a frothy pop band. I wanted to do music that had a harder edge.

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

We're not a Screamo band.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.

I was a total metal-head as a teen. I still love it, too.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

I like hard, aggressive music.