Michelle Visage Quotes

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

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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

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

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

I love punks!

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'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!

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

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 never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

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.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

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

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

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.