Rickey Medlocke Quotes

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.

I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

Rock music is niche.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

I think it'd be weird for us to do hard rock.

Rock music as a whole was terrible in the early 2000s.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

I listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and that whole era of heavy music.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like The Pretty Reckless.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.

Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.