Corin Tucker Quotes

The Butcherettes are led by a female singer, and they're sort of wild.

I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.

When I was little I wanted to be like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love or be attached to the X-girls and hang out in downtown culture.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

I think the only festival I ever went to was Warped Tour.

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

When I was 16, 17 years old, I became aware of music coming out of Olympia, Wash., which is the state capitol and about an hour south of Seattle. And there were bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile and Heavens To Betsy, and for the first time, I heard my story being explained to me, being sung to me.

Warped Tour is completely in a league of its own. It's this crazy cross between a real, full tour and a festival.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that it seemed like a local thing.

In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

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

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.

I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

I was never into smart college boy music.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.