Beto O'Rourke Quotes

When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our singer was really into Jawbreaker and a lot of indie rock bands and old Dischord bands, and sort of like more of the indie side of music. Our bass player was really into West Coast punk.

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

I love punk rock, but I also love metal.

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

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved hip hop and reggae music, so we have always sort of refused a street style that is something that we are used to. Something that makes us comfortable and sounds good to us.

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself.

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

The only person out there worthy of mixing political views and music is Jello Biafra.

My biggest love has always been the music Black Veil Brides make, but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy other things.

All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not skate punks.

I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody was doing that style of music.

The Germs' contribution to history sucks as far as I'm concerned.

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

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

I'm really into, like, characters - music characters like Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain - just, like, how they are and stuff. Like Lil Wayne.

I have a special place in my heart for the Straight Edge Society. Never reached its full potential.

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

I knew that my love for the Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church and that kind of stuff, was never going to lend itself well to a direct interpretation in Black Veil Brides.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

I was really into emo and scene culture in middle school.