Against Quote by Cass Elliot

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had…

— Nate Ruess

The thing I loved about my old punk band, it wasn't really about being vulnerable, it was about shouting and being fun and being…

— MO

As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.

— Isaac Hanson

The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and…

— George Carlin

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn't feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.

— Randy Meisner

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

— Rob Zombie

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of disco, showed…

— Chuck D

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…

— Benji Madden

When I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I…

— Girl Talk

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong…

— Kevin Macdonald

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

— Anurag Kashyap