Post-Punk Quotes

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

I love Eighties rock.

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that I actually grew up with, and I always had these things in my taste, too. And I always loved industrial music as well: I listened to Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Cabaret Voltaire. And shoegaze bands like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Obviously, Sonic Youth has been a huge part of my life for many, many years, and I love all those guys dearly.

For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

Since reuniting in 2002, Mission of Burma has become the triumphant story of a band that time forgot.

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

I just love The Cure. I think that their songwriting is so next level, and I really like the juxtaposition between this bad boy attitude and a softer, more emotional idea.

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.

Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.

I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.

I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.