Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.
Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody was doing that style of music.
I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.
Pete Wentz was the Justin Bieber of 2007. Girls loved him; they obsessed over him.
If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.
I was really into Blink-182 and punk bands like NOFX and MXPX.
I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.
I love Nirvana, Weezer and a lot of pop punk stuff - Blink-182, I loved.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything.
I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
When I was growing up listening to music, it was 2004, when The Starting Line and Finch and The Used were kind of my favorite bands.
I love 'Ocean Avenue' by Yellowcard. That's always been one of my favorites.
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.
I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop songs, but was driven nuts because the guitars were so wimpy sounding. So I decided to put the two together. That's how the Muffs started.
Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
'American Idiot' is not only one of my favorite albums of all time, it's become an anthem of a generation.
There's this wave of new pop-punk bands that has come out that's bigger than ever. I'm really glad that we got to be a part of helping push that forward, if we did at all. I wouldn't have had it any other way.
I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.
My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.
I'm a big fan of rocky girls. I love Hayley Williams and the lead singer from Tonight Alive.
I'm so passionate about Panic! at the Disco and Brendon Urie. I'm obsessed with him.
