Ryan Adams Quotes

When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.

The '80s were wild. The hair, the clothes.

My mom loves the '80s. I grew up hearing a lot about the '80s.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

I was a child of the '80s.

Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.

I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic. And so those artists - Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston - you still hear those songs all the time. And there's such a distinctive style - the clothes, the shoulder pads, the big hair, the perm.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

The '80s weren't perfect and people made some questionable fashion choices but in terms of music and movies, it was revolutionary and wonderful.

Typically, people think, 'Oh the hippies and the punks hated each other,' or that those things don't go together musically. Sometimes that is true, but we had equal parts of both in our musical DNA.

I like soul, I like rock, I like new wave, I like punk music, I like blues, I like jazz, and I was brought up on all of them from a young boy all the way to my teenage years, when I was wild and crazy, in college.

I knew that my love for the Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church and that kind of stuff, was never going to lend itself well to a direct interpretation in Black Veil Brides.

I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.

I can't imagine my '80s childhood without MTV.

I like stuff like Joy Division and Verdi, and then some naff stuff.

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

There's so many great themes from the '80s: 'Magnum,' 'Miami Vice.'