Travis Barker Quotes

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!

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

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

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

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

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 punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it - but I came to London when punk was maybe where you'd say punk is dead.

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

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 really into punk when I was about 14.

I was a huge punker growing up.

Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.

All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.