Tim Gane Quotes

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

I first got into punk music at 17, The Adverts, just from being a bored teenager.

I was into the Ramones, Bad Brains, all of that, when I was in high school.

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

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

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

I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic punk bands, like the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat - all those bands that you get into when you're first getting into punk.

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

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd Skynyrd or Yes or Van Halen.

When I was in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade, Green Day was my formative entry to punk. I wish I could say I was listening to Minor Threat and Black Flag, but I wasn't. Bay Area punk bands were doing it right.

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.

I was a huge punker growing up.

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

I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

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

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

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

In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills. It was more about the ethos and the energy.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

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

I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.