Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

New York City has more rock history in its 305 square miles than most of America combined.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.

For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that.

Go out and support your local rock n' roll band.

I was a failed grunge kid who was too nerdy to totally get down with rock.

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

I started playing in punk-rock bands and touring when I was 15, so I missed high school.

We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.

The most amazing live shows that I've ever seen were Rain Parade shows.

I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van on the street in front of a club in the West 60s called Hurrah. It's where Pylon played. I saw Klaus Nomi play there. And Michael Gira's band before he did Swans-they all wore cowboy boots and were so cool and had great hair. I was so jealous.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

I love playing the Fillmore. I love the walk from the hotel and climbing up those old, iron stairs that lead to the stage. I imagine Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and all those other great bands climbing those same stairs.

If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.

My first Ramones show was at a small club in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. It was a transformative experience, even though my memories are a little blurry, since someone kicked me in the head halfway through the show, probably during 'Beat on the Brat.'

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

First concert I saw was a British boy band called Take That when I was 14 or 15. I went with nine girls from school.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.