Simon Cowell Quotes

Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

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

I was a huge punker growing up.

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

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

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.'

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

I'm still secretly a bit of a punk. Love The Clash and a bit of the Pistols. I guess as I've got older I've chilled out a bit. But, my teenage angst is still stirring somewhere!

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.

I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

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.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

The bands that were big in '77, like the Clash and the Sex Pistols and Talking Heads, I got into them in the early '80s. And it changed my life. It got into my DNA.

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

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

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

The first music I loved on my own was punk.

The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived.

I'm punk, but I love gold.

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.