Laura Jane Grace Quotes

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

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

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

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

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.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

I was a huge punker growing up.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

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.

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 was the only real punk rock kid in my school, with, like, the plaid pants and the Rancid t-shirt.

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

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

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.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

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.

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

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.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

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

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