Susanna Hoffs Quotes

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

I was a huge punker growing up.

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'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.

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

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

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

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

By the '80s, anything to do with punk was perceived as rancid. Me being known as the 'punk poet' meant my work and I plummeted.

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

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

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

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.

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.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

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

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 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.

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.

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.