Taylor Swift Quotes

I've heard my share of Van Halen. I never liked rock.

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

I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X... all that stuff. I loved everybody.

I was in a party band in the early '80s, and we played Sabbath and Ozzy songs as well as Rush and Van Halen... all that kinds of stuff.

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 went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey.

I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.

I actually grew up on rock music; that's what was played around my house. I listened to Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Nirvana, Aerosmith - really almost everything.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

I like Journey, Bad Company, Soundgarden and Aerosmith.

The first time I heard Kiss, I knew that was the type of music I was attracted to.

I do love my rock music.

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

I grew up with British rock.

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.

In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

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