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

Bad Brains is one of my all-time favorite punk bands.

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

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.

Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.

When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

I'd say a big transition as a kid was when I started to listen to Good Charlotte. They were like a rap-to-rock/punk group.

The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk.

You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.

People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

I don't think any punk bands really ever got their due.

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

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

It's funny I'm talking to 'Rolling Stone' right now, because back then, it was like, 'Punk rock? Put it back. It's just a flash in the pan.'

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

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

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.