Punk Quote by Al Jourgensen

When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty…

— Doug Martsch

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but…

— Corey Taylor

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real…

— Glenn Branca

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd…

— John Rzeznik

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark…

— Michael Stipe

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

— Tom Morello

I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main…

— Flume

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

— Michelle Visage

I was in bands all through my youth. Things started out more acoustic and then piano ballads. Then R&B followed by sappy pop music…

— Lights

Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early…

— Andy Biersack

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with heavy metal, Van Halen, Motley Crue. The older I got, my tastes widened. I always…

— Panos Cosmatos

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

— John K. Samson