Ronnie Radke Quotes

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.

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

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

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

People who love R&B will love my music, people who love rock will love my music. It's soulful, it's pop. It's a sound that relates to everyone.

One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.

Ska is fine. Punk is fine. Putting those two together drove us crazy.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

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

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.