Jim Carroll Quotes

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

I associate creativity with independent music.

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

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

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

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'd say a big transition as a kid was when I started to listen to Good Charlotte. They were like a rap-to-rock/punk group.

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

I make the kind of music I like.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.